Re: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind m

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Original poster: "Mark Hales by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <markhals-at-dircon.co.uk>

Cheers Bill.
Nice coil! I only managed to get one pic of it and that was with a hand held
SLR, about 1/60th second so not too sharp. Good streamer pic and the first I
ever took of one.
May get to see it again someday.
Cheers, Mark...

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Subject: Re: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i wind m


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<wysock-at-ttr-dot-com>
>
> To Mark, et. al.,
>
> The Tesla Coil at Canberra is at a museum (now called) "Questicon".
> They have a web site.  I think it is www.questicon-dot-com.  It is one
> of my Super Model 9 Tesla Coils.  It runs on 50 Hz input, with a
> motor I especially built to be salient-pole synchronous at 3,000
> r.p.m.  Like all my larger coils for public viewing, it is installed
> in a large Faraday Cage, for safety and RFI suppression.  I sold
> that system back in about 1987.
>
> Perhaps Terry F. could spend some of his (spare) time (when he's
> not tied up moderating this Tesla List), and compose what you
> have proposed below.  It might take a considerable amount of time
> and effort however IMHO.
>
> Best regards,
> Bill Wysock.
>
> > Date:          Thu, 22 Feb 2001 16:42:42 -0700
> > From:          "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To:            tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject:       Re: High Voltage Museums (was Does it matter which way i
wind
> >                my secondary?)
>
> > Original poster: "Mark Hales by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <markhals-at-dircon.co.uk>
> >
> > Mike.
> > That was me. The science museum in Canberra had (has?) a coil apparently
> > rated 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
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > 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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