Re: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind my secondary?)

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Original poster: "John Philip Sanderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <John.Sanderson-at-eng.monash.edu.au>

Dear all, 

I believe that coil at Questacon/National Science and Technology Centre 
in Canberra is one of Bill Wysock's, but I'm not sure what model.  It 
certainly throws a mean arc.  When I was there last (1995?)they had an 
additional smaller "secondary" coil off to the side of the main monster 
which was used for a wireless power transmission demo, and threw little 
streamers of its own when the main brute was running.   
Their Jacob's ladder is interesting because it has 3 prongs.
Unfortunately I have no pictures of either device.  

Cheers, 

John.

> Mike.
> That was me. The science museum in Canberra had (has?) a coil 
> apparentlyrated at 3 million volts, but then the speaker also told 
> the audience it was
> "just like the ignition coil in your car!" Threw some monster 
> streamers,though, probably in excess of 20 feet! As ans aside, 
> they've also got the
> biggest Jacobs ladder I've ever seen or will ever see.
> Maybe some Aussies on the list can come up with some pix on a website?
> Cheers, Mark Hales.
> markhals-at-dircon.co.uk
> 
> 
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> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 3:02 PM
> Subject: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind my
> secondary?)
> 
> 
> > Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:05:40 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> > <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
> > >
> > >> Really, your argument makes sense, and looking at a paper (1936)
> > >> describing the big Roud Hill double Van de Graaff generator I 
> see that
> > >> the maximum voltage was higher at the negative terminal (2.7 
> MV x
> > >> 2.4 MV), meaning that breakout was easier at the positive 
> terminal.> >
> > > Anyone visiting Boston should make an effort to see the high-
> voltage> >demonstration at the  Boston Museum of Science, where 
> half of the Round
> > >Hill generator is operated for the amazement of visitors.  Got 
> a chance
> > >to see it about a year ago, and it sure was worth the trouble 
> to get
> > >there.  Had quite an array of Tesla Coils running at the same time.
> >
> > Has anyone compiled a worldwide list of museums featuring TCs and
> > other HV demos ? If not, how about maintaining a list at 
> pupman-dot-com -
> > I'm sure if every list member submitted the places they knew of, 
> we'd> already be pretty close to a full list.
> >
> > (At the UK Teslathon last year someone told me they had a big TC at
> > Canberra - I was in Australia the month before and could have 
> visited> if only I'd known!)
> >
> >
> >
> >
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