RE: 1st Tesla Coil WONT LIGHT HELP PLEASE!

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Original poster: Thomas <tom-at-pwrcom-dot-com.au> 

Oops.

Cheers for fixing that Ian (no offence taken).

Tom.

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.............
  >
  >