Re: Just starting out

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Original poster: "William R. Langston by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <blangsto-at-iwvisp-dot-com>

Dear Tech,

I am away from home, on a laptop with few links saved, but, go to the
pupman archives. Searching there will
have more than you could gather on your own in a life time. Just read
carefully and you can pretty easily
cull the useful from the less useful material.

About being sheepish on the list, if you are a pretty good tech, then you
sure do not need to feel second
rate here. If you have been on the job for long, you surely will  have
figured out how often engineers and
physicists are pulled out of the "fire" so to speak. Few there are that can
remember "everything," and, at
least in my experience, any scientist or engineer whose been out of school
very long at all, and who is
worth having in a lab already knows the value of making good relationships
with two really important groups
of people: 1. the techs, 2. the administrative assistants ;-)

Bill L.

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Dan_Gallagher%PULSARNOTES-at-pulsartech-dot-com>
>
> Hi guys,
> I may not be worthy of this group because you all sound like highly
> intelligent engineers to me. But I've been involved with electronics all my
> life. I've been a repair lab tech for years.
>
> My question is I am interested in building my own tesla coil. I'm not
> talking about a huge one with 10 foot arcs, maybe 12" or so arcs.
>
> Would you guys have any recommendations for where to start. I work for an
> electric utility communications company dealing with communications via
> power-line carrier and fiber optics. I am the technical writer here. This
> seems to me like it could be a valuable resource for this interest of mine.
>
> Like right now I took from their discards a huge coil that looks like a
> cigarette butt stand. You know those cigarette butt stands with the tray of
> sand on the top. It seems to me I should be able to use this in some way in
> making my tesla coil but without expert advice like from you guys I don't
> know.
>
> I'm very interested in starting and I am aware of the safety protocol of
> working with high voltage.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
>   Daniel Gallagher -- Graphic designer/Technical writer
>                        Pulsar Technologies, Inc.
> "THE BRIGHT STAR IN UTILITY COMMUNICATIONS"
>    4050 N.W. 121 Ave. Coral Springs, FL 33065 U.S.A.
>        954-344-9822 ext. 243 (www.pulsartech-dot-com)