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

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Original poster: "Dave" <dgoodfellow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Everyone is talking about the spark discharge lengths in question, 
but no one is worried about how many un-dead the thing might produce 
if it gets into the wrong hands!  The dangers related to coiling as 
published by the Tesla list even missed this one. It's a good thing 
that this coil can't control the weather, or power time travel 
devices like my coils can. :-)

Dave Goodfellow


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


> Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Finn,
>
> Not sure that I can even agree with you here, either.
> 80 inches I could accept with no questions, but not
> 300 inches - That's 25 feet or about 8 meters! Not
> with 6.6 kVA, anyway. I do agree with you that it
> does look like a Wysock built coil, though and that
> price is probably about in line with what a truly "pro-
> fessionally built" coil of this magnitude would cost.
> Not many of "us" hobbiest would/could spring for that
> kind of cash for a coil, though.
>
> David Rieben
>
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> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Tesla coil on Ebay; 80-300' lightning?
>
>
> > Original poster: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > This coil has got "Wysock" written all over it, from deco, and down
> > to the control cabinet.
> > http://www.ttr.com/model5d.htm
> > And I don`t think the price is at all that incredible. It`s less than
> > I`d charge for a similar unit, but then: coiling seems to be cheaper in
> the US.
> > Just look at the ridiculously low prices Dr.R is charging for his pole
> pigs.
> > The guy obviously got feet mixed up with inches, and so, correcting
> > for that, is no big thing.
> >
> > Cheers, Finn Hammer
> >
> > Tesla list skrev:
> > >Original poster: "M G" <gt4awd@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sometimes I check ebay "Tesla coil" to see if there is anything new
> > >that I would like to get. While searching I run into an auction
> > >where a coil is being sold for just about $15,000. The description
> > >says that it can create verticle streamers 80-300' straight up in
> > >the air. Looking at the coil you can see the primary does not have
> > >that many turns, and considering the secondary is so large, the
> > >capacitor must be huge. I have my doubts that this coil can create
> > >streamers that long using only 220volts at 30amps. It also seems
> > >that this coil is being sold to anyone willing to pay the high
> > >price, regardless of electrical knowledge, which is a bad idea in my
> > >opinion. Here is a quote of the entire description.
> > >http://cgi.ebay.com/Giant-Megavolt-Tesla-Coil-for-Special-effects-