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Re: A&E Tesla coil, and Mind Freak. (fwd)



Original poster: Gerry Reynolds <greynolds@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:55:14 -0700
From: resonance <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: A&E Tesla coil, and Mind Freak. (fwd)





No, it was our Big Bruiser coil.    10 ft dia toroid, 0.3 uF on pri, 24 inch 
dia sec x 11 ft long.

Yes, it hits 850 kV peak.

The TV people pumped it up to the 3 million volt figure.  The usual BS 
theatrics --- just like the "injury" shots of him going to the hospital, 
etc.  We really hated the rotten trick they played on us.  Not telling us 
anything about this part of the script.

Dr. Resonance



>
> No-one has a 3MV coil. No-one has a 1MV coil either (Electrum might come
> close). Dr Resonance has a (measured)800kV coil that does 21 feet from
> memory.
> Many people have assumed that spark length of DC sparks extrapolates to RF
> sparks from a TC. Not so. Spark length in a TC grows due to repeated hits
> far longer (eg 3 or more times) than expected.  This is easily proven by
> doing single shot sparks which are ridiculously small even with huge 
> coils.
> I think the coil in that episode was from Tesla Technology Research.
>
> Peter