tesla coil powered anti gravity lifter

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Original poster: ben eells <squeels2171@xxxxxxxxx>

Anyone who has played around with high voltage has probably seen an 
anti gravity lifter such as the one described 
here 
<http://www.americanantigravity.com/lifterplans.html>http://www.americanantigravity.com/lifterplans.html
Having finished my most recent coil I was looking for another project 
to work on and started researching a lifter. The lifter is easy 
enough to make but I didn't have the 25+kv DC power supply to lift 
one. What I did have was a tesla coil. I have to say that I never 
really expected this to work because a tesla coil produces AC unless 
I'm terribly mistaken. I built the lifter based roughly on the 
instructions from the website. I ran 26 gauge magnet wire from the 
discharge terminal of my relatively small tesla coil and I ran the 
ground wire to ground. I powered the coil up and got some sparks and 
corona from the lifter but no flight. As far as I can tell a tesla 
coil can't power a lifter. I'm curious though if anyone else has 
tried this with different results.