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Subject: Re: This Hobby's Expensive - Tosh! No,my good man, it isn't!
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Original poster: Davetracer@xxxxxxx
In a message dated 4/14/2005 8:36:48 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie"
> <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> All,
> Jeez guys, give me a break. I was just being a little
> jealous and kidding
> about "deep pockets." I never dreamed I would get flamed
> for joking around.
> Paul Brodie
> Think Positive
>
I don't know what all the fuss is about, really. I only invest in
materials for my Coils based off sound engineering science and EE
practice. I economize when possible. I have used WinTesla and TeslaJava,
but I find their interface a bit tricky. And Java is slow, let's face it.
I am surprised how long it takes to crunch the numbers on the computer I
have here; the only thing else I have seen able to slow this puppy down
is, of course, Windows.
I wanted a decent winding for my secondary coil, so I bought up some
silver bars, had them smelted, pulled into #26 size and insulated. I
wound 670 turns on a ruby rod I had laying around from some project or
other. The spark gap was at first a problem because the 24kt gold kept
melting off those gold points I embedded into the buillion bricks. (You'd
think the Swiss could put out a better temperature tolerant brick!) But I
finally had to go to iridium and platinum on the spark gap points just to
get them to, y'know, look right. Mounted the whole thing on an onyx
table. Everyone says its tacky but I think it was nice to wind the
primary on top of a pattern of emeralds, rubies, and diamonds. They
reflect the sparks real nice! Gives the whole thing a warm glow.
I too had the common "exploding rotary gap" problem. I asked
Lockheed's Skunk Works to help me, and they recommended titanium. It's a
bit tricky to work with (brittle!) but now I have a rotary gap that is
good to a hundred thousand RPM or so. It's a bit noisy when I light off
the SR-71 jet turbine to spin it up, but Tesla Coils are always noisy,
what's the fuss? And it's not like I don't throttle back after it's spun
up! People are so ornery!
I too had toroid problems. After mucking about with many things, I
decided to "go pro".
I finally just said the heck with it and had a casting foundry do the
toroid in gold, because it's such a nice conductor. The trouble was the
bozos gave me a thin casting, not a solid toroid! Oh, well, it was just
as well ... the solid one weighed a bit much, and I have to admit it's
just in use as a doorstop now. My poor butler sprained his back, in fact.
I have a "pole pig", who is named "James", who really is a nice
guy, and is available 24/7 after I put in a call to the CEO of Xcel and
reminded him who his biggest stockholder was. James is only about 170 lbs
so I don't know if "Pig" really describes him. It was right nice of Xcel
to string some of those tall towers, you know, that hold the 3 big wires
on each side?, to my house.
'Course the buzzing and humming of the substation keeps ol' Yeller
up nights a worryin'.
Grins,
Dave Small
Baron of Denver
Think Positive (for half the sine wave)