Re: Newbe Question

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Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation" <dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com> 


Gary,

12" Diameter PVC is pretty big stuff.  You can also build a high power tesla
coil using smaller secondaries.  My 3.5kW tesla coil
uses 4" PVC and is capable of 6-8 foot arcs depending on the toroid I use.

Pictures of this coil can be found here.
http://www.easternvoltageresearch-dot-com/teslacoil18.htm

Dan



 > I have done some playing around with coils in my younger days but now want
 > to build real one. I have available a 12 inch diameter 5 foot long PVC
pipe
 > that I plan to use as the secondary. I have four 9000 volt 30ma neon sign
 > transformers that give me 120ma in parallel producing about 1000 watts,
 > presently on a Jacobs ladder. For this size coil what wire would be
 > recommended and should it be close wound or have some spacing between
turns.
 > I want to make a coil that would be hefty enough to stand an upgrade to a
 > pole pig from the neons in the future.
 > I hope this question isn't too elementary for the list.
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > Gary Gonnella W6RYO
 > http://www.w6ryo-dot-com
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