Re: Hello from new Member

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Original poster: "James Robinson" <james.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Mat,

Welcome to this list, I thought I would say hello - I am half-based in 
Worthing I assume relatively close to you (I say half based because i 
really live in London, but my girlfiend lives in Worthing, and we have a 
house down there where we usually are at the weekends).  If you need any 
help finding stuff drop me a line. I would be all too glad to offer any 
assistance and I have a few bits and bobs lying around.

btw I am in the process of  building my second coil - a 6" DC based thing - 
but progress has become slow due to projects of the paying variety.

Anyway good luck with it

James


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Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 3:41 PM
Subject: Hello from new Member


> Original poster: "Matthew Newall (skymatty1)" <skymatty1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello to all.
>
>  I thought I should introduce myself as I will no doubt be seeking much 
> help as I embark on my first Tesla coil project. :-)
>
> I am planning on building my first coil ASAP and would be gratful for any 
> help and advice you may be able to offer. I would like to start of by 
> building a medium sized coil (I know I should really start with a small 
> one but I have this habbit of trying to running before I can walk ) and 
> would like to find out some information on where to find and how too's. I 
> am based in West Sussex UK and as hard as I have treid I am finding it 
> difficult to locate suppliers for second hand pole pigs and other High 
> voltage stuff that I could use for coil making.
>
>
> As I will be starting to collect the compoents from scratch I am flexible 
> on the design and component layout of the coil, but I would like to 
> produce a coil that will produce stremers of at least 15ft to start with. 
> I am mad (probably) :-) but i fell that with my electronics knowlege and 
> willing to learn feel this may be just possible with your help.
>
> For this size coil would it be more prudent to go the Power distribution 
> transformer route or a bank of MOV transformers ect. As i can see 
> advantages in both. and would a coil this size be best suited to a Rotary 
> spark gap or static ..   ect.
>
> If anyone has any thoughts on this I would be very gratful for your input.
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mat