Re: Tiny Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-ian-dot-org>

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Tesla list wrote:
> If you want to
> build a coil of this type, there's an excellent article in "The Scientific
> American Book of Projects for The Amateur Scientist" (Stong 1960) on how to
> build an x-ray machine with an Oudin coil. It tells you how to put the coil
> together. Here's the article online:
> http://www.noah-dot-org/science/x-ray/stong/

Great article, thanks!  So it looks like the big diffrence is that the
primary and secondary coils are joined in an Oudin coil, and seperate in
a Tesla coil?

So what is the advantage to a Tesla coil?  More power or safety because of
the coil seperation?

-- 
Ian