Re: BIG counterpoise

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

I live out here where you are talking about. When we fire our 12 kW, 13" 
coil, we draw a crowd... people find 12 to 15 ft arcs, under the sky you 
described, just too much to ignore. And boy are those arcs visible from a 
long way off out here!

Bill L.

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Jeff W. Parisse by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jparisse-at-teslacoil-dot-com>
>
>Jim,
>
>You are right on all counts! We used what was available and it'd
>probably work better with 16 radials. We used 8 radials to give the
>camera crews pie slices of dry lake bed to move their equipment in and
>out and around the coil. The standing gag was that EVERYBODY was
>constantly tripping over the radials even though they were weighted down
>(sand bags) and we all knew where they were!
>
>An aside: That was one of the most fantastic night of my life. The
>entire lake bed was rented by Honda and they had a small army of rifle
>totin', night scope watchin' security guys at the entrance to the lake.
>You ALL have seen this place anytime you see a car commercial with the
>car skidding in slow motion across a lake bed with mountains MILES in
>the background... It's almost beyond comprehension how large, flat,
>uniform and barren these dry lake beds are. Anyway... The crew was from
>Germany and France and they were cooked after three days in the desert
>(105 degrees F at 10pm at night) and bolted back to the hotel (40 miles
>away) after wrap leaving us to "pack-up whenever we wanted". ... We
>didn't want... We were in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE with NOTHING but a Tesla
>coil (and the guard's RV about 4 miles away with the guards watching our
>backs... No bad guys just millions of dollars worth of Acura's and
>camera dollies). We were able to ride our bikes (pedal kind) with our
>eyes closed for minutes at a time... Run the coil till the diesel ran
>out... Never saw the Milky Way as a three dimensional body until that
>night... We didn't get back to the hotel till around 4-5am....
>
>Fun!
>
>Jeff