Re: Tesla Coil Tricks

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Original poster: "Brett Miller by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brmtesla-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hello Dan,

There's always frying compact disks.  Either place one
so it's hanging directly off the toroid (as a breakout
point) or suspend a grounded CD within striking range
of the streamers.  The arcs will displace the aluminum
on the CD, leaving transparent plastic underneath
(that is if your coil output doesn't melt the plastic
too!) and it can be examined by spectators afterward.

-Brett

 >  > Hello all,
 >  >
 >  > I'm looking for ideas for safe tricks and
 > demonstrations to do with my
 >  > tesla coil.  My experience has been that, while
 > initially awed to the
 >  > appropriate level by the foot long power arcs and
 > 18" coronal discharges,
 >  > within about 5 or 10 minutes they're pretty used
 > to it and it becomes a
 >  > case of "okay, now what" (as for myself, I could
 > do it for hours and never
 >  > get bored of it).  As compared to my van de graaf
 > generator, which allows
 >  > for all kinds of up close and personal fun with
 > electricity (hair raising,
 >  > shocking friends, blowing corona off the fingers,
 > games with pie plates
 > and
 >  > soap bubbles etc).  Fluorescent tube lighting has
 > been good, but how else
 >  > can one flesh out a "show" for friends?
 >  >
 >  > Thanks,
 >  >
 >  > Dan Reinders