RE: Early versions of Tesla's coil

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Original poster: "Richter, Rick by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rick.richter-at-hp-dot-com>


	I never cease to be amazed at the sources for debugging tips for
my coil. I'd been having problems getting the maximum streamer output
from my coil. After watching the video, I went to check out my coil, and
*sure enough*, my squirrel had burned out!!! Fortunately, I live in
Houston and have a ready backup supply of them :-)

	Rick

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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 10:53 PM
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Subject: Re: Early versions of Tesla's coil


Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Matt,

"I" always think of a "Tesla coil" as an "air core resonant transformer
capable of creating enormous voltages and colossal discharges" as
defined
in the clip at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/tesla%20coil.mpg

It is very possible Tesla himself designed and maybe constructed vacuum
tube Tesla coils.  The basic principle behind the OLTC (low voltage -
high
current) must have certainly been considered by Tesla.  But he did not
have
the means to make it work, so he went with high voltage and low current
primaries instead.  Solid State coils work much as Tesla envisioned but
only with a different gap technology.

We also attribute Tesla's name to our coils just out of respect and to
promote his great name.  When you hear the name of "Tesla", few will
think
of the unit of magnetic measurement named after him.  "Gauss" won that
(rightfully so, since his staggering brilliance had a giant impact on
the
world too...)  There is the band...  But mention "Tesla coil" and
everyone
knows who your talking about ;-))  Recently, Tesla has gained far more
note
for AC power among the "population" too ;-))  But Tesla coils are all
Tesla's...  No one can claim anything there but the master himself.  We
also have "Tesla coil caps", "Tesla coil transformers", Tesla coil spark

gaps"...  Type "tesla coil" into E-bay and you will find the term is
getting a lot of wannabes "wishing" they had something to do with Tesla
coils  :o)))  So the term "Tesla coil" has grown far beyond a mere
definition now.  Not sure "what" it is now.  Maybe Ralph knows the
proper
term...

Cheers,

          Terry


At 10:14 PM 7/7/2003 -0400, you wrote:
 >    Philosophical question:
 >
 >        Was it possible for Nikola Tesla to design and build any coil
 > that
 > wasn't by definition a type of "Tesla Coil" ? Seems that his coils of
 > this type would have a better claim on the name "Tesla coil" than an
 > OLTC, VTTC or SSTC, none of which he ever designed or built.
 >
 >I think I need a life!
 >Matt D.