Re: NEWBIE

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

Brian Basura (who may or may not still be on the list) has a mini-twin
http://www.briananddebbie-dot-com/images/Tesla/Mini-Twin/mini-twin.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 6:13 AM
Subject: RE: NEWBIE


 > 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-----
 >  > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 >  > Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:51 am
 >  > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > 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
 >  >  >
 >