Re: DC Tesla Coils

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Original poster: thcduke-at-optonline-dot-net 

its called a reactor core its just a bunch of wire wraped around an iron 
core. how it works is the core stores energy in a magnitic field than 
pulses it out into the cap when the gap fires. the reactor core makes the 
dc tc work like ac tc. this osilation causes the voltage to double so if 
you get a cap make sure its double the rating of the power suply.

----- Original Message -----
From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Saturday, February 21, 2004 1:31 pm
Subject: DC Tesla Coils

 > Original poster: "Tristan Steele" <tsteele-at-westnet-dot-com.au>
 >
 > Hello All
 >
 > I am relatively new to the world of High Voltage, and am considering
 > building my first tesla coil.  The thought that I am having is
 > that wouldn't
 > it make more sense to use a rectified output (ie. DC) to charge
 > the primary
 > capacitor.  Is it possible to run a tesla coil on DC power?
 >
 > Tristan
 >
 >
 >