RE: Large Tesla Coil Construction - Continued Progress

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Original poster: "Cameron B. Prince" <cplists@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the kind words Colin.

I added the ballast resistor tonight and took some video. You can see more
updates on the page.

Hopefully I can get the toroid mount done tomorrow or Monday and fire this
thing up.

Thanks,
Cameron

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: Large Tesla Coil Construction - Continued Progress
>
> Original poster: "colin heath" <colin.heath4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> hi cameron,
>                 well i just have to say this is looking like
> a piece of art. your attention to detail is great! i look
> forward to seeing this coil in action.
> cheers
> colin heath
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> Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 7:48 AM
> Subject: Large Tesla Coil Construction - Continued Progress
>
>
> >Original poster: "Cameron B. Prince" <cplists@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Hey guys,
> >
> >I finally got my 60A service installed in my garage and was able to
> >test my control panel today. The saturable reactors worked
> very nicely
> >I must say. I setup the pole transformer with some copper
> wire forming
> >a crude jacob's ladder. I plugged in the master power cable
> and throw
> >the 60A breaker to the on position. I ran the variac up till
> my meter
> >showed about 210 VAC then I heard some faint static sounds.
> I powered
> >up the DC power supply and ran the voltage up. When I got to
> about 50
> >VDC, an arc formed and began running up the wires.
> >
> >I ran the voltage up on both the variac and the DC power
> supply until I
> >was getting 6" to 8" arcs across the upper end of the gap.
> After a few
> >minutes, the wire began laying over as it got hot and began
> to melt. I
> >changed to some bronze wire and it lasted somewhat longer
> before doing
> >the same. I didn't have a suitable amp meter to tell me how much
> >current was being drawn by the pole ransformer, but I ran the system
> >for several minutes with thick, orange arcs and the reactors got
> >slightly warm with the control coil at around 100VDC @
> 300mA. I think
> >they will be fine for my ballast but I plan to experiment with the
> >large resistor too.
> >
> >I also completed the wrapping of the foam toroid, you can
> see pictures
> >of it and the wiring of the control panel on my coil page here:
> >
> >http://www.epitra.com/tesla/index.html
> >
> >I look forward to any comments or suggestions.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Cameron
> >
> >
>
>
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