Re: POPULAR ELECTRONICS, Jul. 1964, p29, 250KV TESLA COIL

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Original poster: "MIKE HARDY" <MHARDY@xxxxxxxxxx>

This very article started my coiling back when I was 15. I then was under
the false impresion that voltage gain was simply a matter of turns ratio. I
wound a 5 ft. tall sec. on a drape rod tube no more than 2" OD. The primary
was wound on a cardboard Quaker Oats canister. I got about 9" sparks from a
15/30. For about 35 years it sat dismantled in my folks basement. Last fall
my brother in law deciced to clean the basement, and threw it away. Being
very hurt, and angered (it took a whole summers cadying for money, and the
following fall/winter to hand wind), I went on a quest to learn how to build
another one. Well  a year and a half later, I have 2 rockin' coils doing
respectively 4', and nearly 8 foot sparks, and a huge coil in the works, I
hope to get over 15 footers out of. THANKYOU BROTHER IN LAW!
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: POPULAR ELECTRONICS, Jul. 1964, p29, 250KV TESLA COIL


> Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 1/23/06 9:10:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Hi Jim, All,
>
> Actually, "Big- and Li'l TC" are step-by-step "cookbook" type
> articles, with dimensioned plans, etc. Hard to summarize.
>
> Matt D.
> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 06:20 PM 1/22/2006, you wrote:
>  >Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  >Tesla list wrote:
>  >>Original poster: "Tim_S" <stm800@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >>http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm
>  >
>  >I have to say that this is ridiculously complicated.
>  >I would ignore it completely and post everything.
>  >
>  >Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>
>
> Or, if you want to be legal, why not just summarize the article.  For
> the folks on this list, you could probably give all the relevant
> information in just a few paragraphs. I'm sure the original article
> talks a lot about stuff like why and how tesla coils work (and is
> probably wrong, in some details).
>
>
>
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