Re: NEWBIE

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

You want to run the coils inside a sphere made of wire mesh, etc?  or more
like a plasma sphere?
In any case, you can make a small coil and shield it appropriately, so that
it won't cause interference.
A small bipolar coil inside a "faraday cage" might be just the ticket for
you... you'd get that long spark between two electrodes, and the faraday
cage would serve the dual purpose of safety and containing the EMI.

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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: NEWBIE


 > Original poster: Wil <wil-at-deathlord-dot-net>
 >
 >   Hi all, newbie here. I am a halloween fan and build haunted house props.
 > I am currently trying to find a couple of tesla coils to sit atop the back
 > posts of an electric chair. I was hoping to set them up to spark to each
 > other and perhaps set the primary coil inside 10" or smaller spheres. Is
 > this crazy or can this be done? Also, I just read something about the
tesla
 > frying electronic equipment that may be on the same transformer or is it
 > power leg or what? I know I have had problems with my small jacobs ladder
 > triggering some of my sensitive automated animatronics, so there can be
 > transformer or coil interference. How serious is this problem if I wanted
 > to just "plug in" these two coils on the chair to the same power that the
 > rest of the animatronic would be running off of?
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > Wil
 >
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