Re: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show

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Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Nice pix! the coil in the middle-the primary is awfuly close to the floor?
might be a problem. see you all next year,brian f.
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:53 PM
Subject: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show


> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Well, we all survived just fine ;-))
>
> Here is the only "official" picture ;-))
>
> http://hot-streamer.com/temp/Terry%2BJerryDemo.JPG
>
> To the left is Gerry's wonderful coil that really worked well!!  My little
> coil in the middle is running very poorly!!  I need to give it a service
to
> see what is wrong with it...  My E-bay toob coil to the right continues to
> work very well with it's brand new (no burning wood now) grid resistors.
>
> About 120 people showed up and they were all impressed ;-))  We had two
> video cameras there with pro wireless mics and all...  They wanted to put
> it on local access TV and we pinged them to get us the videos too.  I
think
> we can get it on some kind of DIVX format soon so you can all see too.
>
> Gerry put brand new PFC caps on his coil so it only drew like 9 to 12 amps
> off the AC of this old school house.
>
> The Kill-A-Watt meter did not like being on the end of an extension cord
at
> all!!  I think the cord's inductance allowed enough RF to reach the meter
> to mess it all up.  We shielded the cord really well and then it was
> fine.  But I think those meters like to be right at the wall
> outlet.  Gerry's coil was running about 0.93 to 0.94 PF.
>
> I had not hauled around a few hundred pounds of Tesla coil stuff in a long
> time...  I hope the new DRSSTC will fix that side of these demos ;-))))
>
> Cheer's
>
> Terry
>
>
>