RE: Conical secondaries

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Original poster: "Stolz, Mark by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Mark.Stolz-at-st-systems-dot-com>


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>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" 
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>Does any one know anything about conical secondaries? I'm asuming there was
>some point in Tesla making them.
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I don't know much either, but I have seen the Tesla Coil at the Griffith
Observatory in Los Angeles and it uses a conical secondary.  It was rather
impressive, throwing 6' arcs with only 231 turns on the secondary.  Here's a
link with more info about it.
http://www.griffithobs-dot-org/exhibits/Tesla%20Coil%20Exhibit/tcoil.html

Mark