Re: Fear Factor

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Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

At 01:01 PM 10/26/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Shad Henderson" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net>
>That rocked :)   Even with a faraday suit, you'd still get plenty juiced
>up, especially your feet.  I missed the very beginning of the show, and
>I'd give anything to see the looks on those poor saps faces when they
>watch those streamers and hear the noise, and think, "I got to stand
>waay too close to that thing?!!"
>
>
>The coil looked very professional and well designed.  I'm curious what
>needed to be done to make it run reliably upside down, though.  What
>keeps the streamers from simply licking upwards along the secondary?
>Streamers rise because of heat.  I'd expect them just to bend upwards
>and strike the base.  Is it required to run a breakout on the coil to
>prevent that from happening?
>
>I'm impressed with the quality of that coil, though.  I'm sure they
>would have cut out any takes where the coil developed problems, but in
>the runs they did show, it ran splendidly.  Never a break or
>interruption, just good smooth running.


I'd be willing to bet there were no occasions where the coil developed 
problems.  Jeff put a lot of margin into the design on that coil.  The same 
would be true of a coil built for permanent installation (say in a museum 
or amusement park)



>I would guess that it's either a low-speed ARSG or a SRSG. It *sounded*
>like 120bps when I was listening to it.  Could it be that we have a
>rather large LTR pig powered coil?  Or was the sound dubbed over?
>
>Good job!