Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Syd,
Sounds absolutely great and I am trying to see if I can get across
Australia to see it in Melbourne.
Did you have to get any regulatory approvals?
I am only allowed to wire a mains plug here unless I have electrician
qualifications and I am sure that there are a heap of other requirements
in relation to safety, RF emissions, sound etc.
Do you use any special earthing?
Cheers
Peter (Tesla Downunder)
http://tesladownunder.iinet.net.au
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Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 7:51 AM
Subject: Giant DC coil to run in Australia
Original poster: syd <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
For those of you who might be in Australia this month, I'll be running
CAUAC at three cities of the annual <http://www.bigdayout.com>Big Day Out
Festival there: Gold Coast, Sydney, and Melbourne. CAUAC has been
evolving: new spark gap, new diodes, bigger three phase transformer set,
and a fire element. Prime power is about 100kva and it stands 16 feet
tall. Spark length? I dunno, fairly long.. there are some new photos and
video here:
<http://www.playahearth.com/sydtesla/coachtesla04/index.html>http://www.playahearth.com/sydtesla/coachtesla04/index.html
I found the slow motion video clips especially interesting as you can
better see the detail of arc propagation. Also you can see little sparks
leaping from the ground plane objects just before the big down strikes.
I hope to completely redo the web site upon return from Australia to
include photos, video, and design notes.
~syd klinge