Re: Trial and error

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Original poster: "david baehr" <dfb25@xxxxxxxxxxx>


....my first few coils were based on info from a book 'HIGH FREQUENCY 
APPARATUS'  by Thomas Curtis , a reprint from 1916, ....a "little" out 
dated, but a good starting point for me, several diff sized coils, info on 
glass plate caps, gaps and constructing your own high voltage supply Xfrmr. 
Back in 1985, I think, I saw a show down at the Denver planitarium called 
'ZAP'. where they had a large T.Coil on stage, and people were lighting 
florecent tubes in the front row,.....I dont know who built that coil, but 
after that show, I got the spark bug !

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Trial and error
>Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:23:29 -0600
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>Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>"Original poster: "Steven Steele" <sbsteele@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Have any of you guys ever just built a good TC by trial and error?
>Or do ya'll always do quantom physics calculations first?
>LOL.
>                                     Steven Steele"
>
> When I built my first one I hadn't even heard of Ohm's law but I
>did
>get it working, as I believe many others have too.
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