RE: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!

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Original poster: "Ian McLean" <ianmm-at-optusnet-dot-com.au> 

No offense intended Thomas, it is just a bad habit my grandmother taught me
... she was very staunch about grammar and spelling.  If your going to
correct spelling, then I had better correct yours.  Just one or two minor
points.  'mili' should be 'milli', and 'tetra' should be 'tera'.

Rgs
Ian


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Monday, 26 January 2004 5:49 am
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: RE: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!
 >
 >
 > Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au>
 >
 > Good advice, just one minor point, it's *kilo* volts.
 >
 > p pico  10^-12
 > n nano  10^-9
 > µ micro 10^-6
 > m mili  10^-3
 > k kilo  10^3
 > M mega  10^6
 > G giga  10^9
 > T tetra 10^12
 >
 > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >
 > I really suggest you move to glass bottles, I have been experimenting
 > with
 > glass saltwater caps recently, and the glass seems to be a much better
 > option. I have had 10kilavolts puncture some cheap plastic
 > bottles even
 > when
 > not immersed in a liquid. You might find some very large cheap bottles
 > at
 > the store and just buy them, empty the liquid and use them. I
 > scrounged
 > "Community dumps"(read: wilderness areas with household trash
 > dumped in
 > them) to get some glass bottles for the capacitors I am making.
 >
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 3:37 PM
 > Subject: Re: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!
 >
 >
 >   > Original poster: "Nightmare" <nightmare-at-bak.rr-dot-com>
 >   >
 >   > NOO, i dunno whats wrong, i emptiesd the caps, refilled them with
 > salt
 >   > water,and a layer of motor oil, wrapped in foil, put in
 > foiled pan,
 > and
 > when
 >   > i fired the coil, the gap fired, and there was also a
 > REALLY REALLY
 > BRIGHT
 >   > AND LOUD spark on one of the terminals of the caps, then after a
 > second it
 >   > stopped getting loud and the spark on the caps just
 > stayed there, i
 >   > unplugged it. This happened twice, can someone tell me
 > what the -at-!#$
 > just
 >   > happened? how do i fix it, i still only got 1 inch spark
 > max when i
 > touched
 >   > a rod to the topload, otherwise no spark! Please help
 >   >
 >   > Ravi
 >   > ----- Original Message -----
 >   > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >   > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >   > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:47 PM
 >   > Subject: Re: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!
 >   >
 >   >
 >   >  > Original poster: "Aaron Aab" <striker754-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >   >  >
 >   >  > pop bottles are plastic, at least around here
 >   >  >
 >   >  >
 >   >  > ----- Original Message -----
 >   >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >   >  > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >   >  > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:50 PM
 >   >  > Subject: Re: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!
 >   >  >
 >   >  >
 >   >  >  > Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
 >   >  >  >
 >   >  >  > Soda bottles?!? Aluminum?  If so that will not work you need
 > glass
 >   >  > bottles.
 >   >  >  >
 > msnip.............
 >
 >