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Original poster: "Bert Pool by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.tx-at-prodigy-dot-net>



>Antonio has done some theoretical work which suggests that
>a special magnifier design may outperform a 2- coil system,
>but this is difficult to achieve, and has never been demonstrated
>in a spark-producing coil.
>
>John


John, all,

I say Antonio's premise of a magnifier's out performance of a conventional 
coil has already been successfully demonstrated in a spark producing coil.

We have a magnifier which has produced 15 foot sparks, photographed and 
measured.  The tank capacitor is a small Maxwell 0.015 ufd cap.  That's not 
a typo - that is 0.015 ufd.  The transformer is a dinky 1.5 kva unit, which 
admittedly was pushed hard - it actually got warm to the touch.   The 
rotary disk is maybe 6 inches in diameter.  The resonator coil is 24 inches 
long.

Several people on this list attended a 1997 Teslathon and saw this coil 
perform, first-hand.

OK, somebody out there show me ONE conventional coil running a 0.015 ufd 
cap making 15 foot sparks.  Just one.  Then I'll say conventional coils can 
match magnifiers' performance.

I helped Wild Bill Emery build the Wart Hog, a big conventional coil, and 
it makes pretty impressive 12 foot sparks, but jeez, we're pumping 15 kva 
from *two* pole pigs into it, and we have to use between 0.08 to 0.10 ufd 
capacitance to get that much out.  That's a lot of capacitors which equates 
into a lot of dollars. (and Bill, you know I'm not saying anything bad 
about the Hog - it's a beautiful machine!)

On one hand, 12 foot sparks from a conventional coil, using TWO pole pigs, 
versus 15 foot sparks from a magnifier using a potential transformer that I 
pick up and carry around by myself?   And people on this list say 
conventional coils and magnifiers have equivalent performance???

I say bull hockey!   *Anybody* out there, anyone at all, got a conventional 
coil that can kick my magnifier coil's butt?

Is anyone else on this list making 15 foot sparks with any conventional 
coil, using a commercial power transformer that they can pick up and carry 
by themselves?  NO?  And I ain't no Arnold Schwartzenegger either - I'm a 
50 year old paper pusher.

Show me 15 foot sparks with ANY conventional coil, ANY size transformer - 
but with just one constraint:  0.015 ufd capacitance.  Let us see that 
conventional coil equivalency in action, with real sparks.

Most of you conventional coil builders probably have a 0.015 ufd 
capacitor.  You get excited when, after much hard work, and fine-tuning, 
and tweaking, and getting the toroid JUST so,  you finally get your coil's 
sparks to stretch out to reach maybe 6 feet or so and then WHAM! you kill 
your garage door opener.  Then, if you want bigger sparks, you go to a 
bigger transformer which means you're going to need to buy or build a 
bigger cap.

I challenge the coilers on this list-serve to take your 0.015 ufd caps and 
build a conventional coil that doubles or triples your 6 foot spark length 
and in so doing, shames me such that I have to tuck my magnifier building 
tail between my legs and slink away, vanquished,  into the darkness . . . . 
but I really, really doubt that I'll have much call to do any slinking.


Any Armchair coil-jockies who've never even built a coil, the ones who can 
only bandy about "simulation this" and "simulation that" can keep quiet - I 
want the *real* conventional coil builders who have varnish under their 
fingernails to step up and build a 0.015 ufd coil and show me those 
conventional *equivalent* 15 foot sparks I keep reading about but have 
never seen.



Bert Pool
http://hot-streamer-dot-com/pool/tesla.htm