Re: Tesla coil on Ebay; 80-300' lightning?

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Guys!

    It's total bunk!! His high eBay rating comes entirely from 
selling concealed antennas for cars, etc., not from anything to do 
with Tesla coils. It DOES NOT, and CANNOT, outperform the world's 
largest Tesla Coil. Judging from the  "literature" shown with it, it 
looks like it was built from one of those pamphlets sold in the back 
pages of Pop Mechanics mags of the 1930s and '40s and 
re-re-re-Xeroxed for the gullible of today by places like Borderlands 
and other purveyors of "New Age" Pseudoscience.

    To be very charitable, perhaps he IS selling it for someone 
else, but eBay policy clearly states that the listing seller is 100% 
responsible for every word in their ad. Hopefully, no one ignorant 
enough to believe it has the money to actually meet the reserve price 
and buy it.

The fact that so many are willing to give it ANY credibility 
indicates to me that we need to do a much better job of education.

Matt D.

Original poster: "Anthony R. Mollner" <penny831@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

It does look like it was made very professionally though.

 Original poster: Mike <<mailto:megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>megavolts61@xxxxxxxxx>

 Whatever the case, the guy has a 99.8% good rating from over 500 
people he's dealt
with.  Perhaps one should not judge him too harshly.
Mike

Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

When I see things like this on ebay I always ask the buyer a lot of
questions.  The guy seems to be selling it for someone else so he
many not know much about what he is selling.  The seller has good
feedback too.  The owner may have stretched the truth a bit and the
selling might not know it.  I can not believe it will make 300 ft
streamers especially straight up on 220 VAC 30 amps.  300 inch
streamers would be more like it but I bet it won't do 300/12= 25 foot
streamers either.




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