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Lighting bulbs experimentation and pics!
Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <CoolCorals-at-aol-dot-com>
Hello,
I am a newbie coiler, just recently got my first TC running. I have
had earlier postings on help with tuning and also had asked questions about
lighting bulbs with TC's.
Quickly, my coil is run on a 6/30 neon, 3 series static gap (open as
wide as ballast will fire) 7 turn solenoidal 6ga primary, 2.3"x22.3"
secondary and a 4x13" toroid. I have not got this totally where I am happy
with the tuning. I am going to re make my primary with 1/4" tubing inverse
cone at 30*. Anyway, I can pull 9" sparks to ground and that's it. My
resonant frequency is about 525khz.
Here's some pics of bulbs I have lit. Oh, and a 40 watt fluorescent tube
will light up almost exactly 6' around the coil.
1. Here's a neat pic from tuning. There's a copper pipe, a steel ball and
a weird jello mold on top. This just looked kinda wild.
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/9.jpg
2. Here's a cool pic of a candle. The sparks come straight out of the top
of the flame!
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/10.jpg
3. Here's a couple of pics using and old "medical quack UV bulb" from
those old electrotherapy kits. The bulb is most straight with one
electrode at the top.
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/11.jpg
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/12.jpg
4. Here's a couple of pics showing a 175watt Metal Halide bulb!!!!!!! The
first pic is just on the top, and the second with a ring wire above.
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/14.jpg
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/15.jpg
5. Here's a nice pic of a plasma ball placed on top. I had an old one
where the supply was bad but the bulb was good, so "on the TC it goes".
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/20.jpg
6. Here's another neat pic of an old neon bulb. This bulb is from the
50's and was meant to run on standard AC. Looks similar here, just a lot
brighter!
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/22.jpg
7. Finally, here's my personal favorite. This is an incandescent bulb
10watt. There is 2 pics, one again just on top and the other with a ring
above.
You can see that the gas has been excited to the point of luminosity
and the stem is glowing blue!! This is a working bulb, and there IS a
filament in there, it doesn't even get warm!?
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/23.jpg
http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/24.jpg
Thanks, Will have some more pics soon! Does anyone else have some pics
like these? What do you guys think?
Thanks, Brad K. Newbie