11E Magnifier

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Original poster: "Day, Michael" <Michael.Day-at-USPTO.GOV> 

Greetings all,

Has anyone read Hull's article, "TESLA COILS AND ELECTROSTATICS," by Richard
Hull, TCBOR (Tesla Coil Builder's News Vol. 16, No.2)?  If so, what did Mr.
Hull teach or disclose?  Did he have anything to say about magnifiers and
electrostatics?

Also, is this volume still available in print, and about how much does it cost?

Mike Day

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Original poster: FIFTYGUY-at-aol-dot-com

In a message dated 10/26/04 3:05:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

  > 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?

      In pictures I've seen of Richard Hull's 11E Magnifier, they ended up
hanging the resonator from the roof. Darn big toroid for a tiny (~2' tall?)
resonator, maybe that helped. I wondered more about roof hits from 11'
streamers
than secondary breakouts with that setup.

-Phil LaBudde