Re: Toroid question and HV Disease

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

Sounds like your still relatively young.  Give it some time.  Once you have
a house of your own, you can buy utility-grade transformers up the whazoo
and
really build some kick-azz coils!!!  I'm still waiting to make that move
into a nice house with some land so I can start messing fulltime with the
pole transformers.
However, I own my townhouse now for the time being and have to stick with
building smaller stuff.  Which is okay, since I've only been dabbing with
the tesla coil stuff
for about a year now and I should really get down all the basics and
experience with small coils before moving on to the big stuff!!!!

The Captain


 > Or have parents that are completley fearful about high voltage! I always
 > tell everyone that the hardest part for me of building these things was
 > convincing my parents. I had to have my physics teacher, electronics
 > teacher, an electrical engineer, and my old science teacher who fooled
 > around with these things all write a note saying that we knew what we were
 > doing and wouldn't burn the house down before they even CONSIDERED letting
 > me build these things... Even to this day, I still can't get any of the
 > "impressive" stuff (anyting utility line related) so I'm currently limited
 > (pun intended) to the "dinky" NST's and such. Oh well... I guess I still
 > have more convincing to do. =D But I'm really glad that they have been as
 > flexible as they are though. After all, I could be limited to only the
 > "shuffle your feet across the carpet" method of making sparks! =D