RE: NEWBIE

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Original poster: "Ian McLean" <ianmm-at-optusnet-dot-com.au> 

As a matter of interest, has anyone on this list built a bipolar coil, and
got some running pictures.  I sure would like to see some.

Rgs
Ian.

 > -----Original Message-----
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 > Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:51 am
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 > Subject: Re: NEWBIE
 >
 >
 > 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.
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > 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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