RE: Biggg Coil about ready for Spring firing.

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>


Kevin,

I very much admire your BIGGG coil.  An awesome sight even unpowered!

If there is any one goal in my future tesla coil endeavours, it is to aspire
one day to build
a coil even larger than that coil!  The drive and determination to do so is
there, except currently living
in a townhouse, I do not have the room.

Anyways, I was wondering if you could share some of the current
specifications of your BIGGG coil at least when
it was running in the video you had on your website.

Basically curious to see what input voltage and input power you were running
at.  Resonant frequency.  I am assuming you
are probably running a few pole transformers in parallel to get the power
needed to run that beast!

Thanks much!

The Captain



Hey all.

   Spring has sprung and the Biggg Coil of Oklahoma is about ready for
action.  It's sporting new variac current control & a 90 deg. mechanical
on the fly phase adjustment for the 3600 RPM sync.  motor.   More
distribution transformers are on hand for greater voltages this Season.

    The new rotary can be seen at  www.flash-dot-net/~kreld/IM000434.JPG   For
size comparison, the aluminum base is 2 feet square.  The motor is  5 HP
3600 RPM modified for sync. operation.  The 13" g-10 disk swings 5/8"
electrodes in aluminum heatsink/mounts.  The stationary electrodes are
3/4" dia & rotate 90 deg.  A gear reduction motor drives the stationary
electrodes on the fly.   Complete temporary website is at
www.flash-dot-net/~kreld/Default.htm

    PS. There is also a link to Dave Wightman's website where he keeps his
Bertha Coil, another large Oklahoma Coil.

Kevin E.