RE: [TCML] Fire on Tesla Coil

["Terry Oxandale" <Toxandale@xxxxxxx>]

The corona will ignite cotton as well. On Halloween many years back I
placed a white cotton sheet over the secondary, in conjuction with a
sphere modified to resemble a skull as the topload (the visual
appearance of a large skeleton covered in a toga). It took only a few
minutes before the corona (the secondary was not completely shielded due
to the relatively small topload) ignited the cotton sheet covering the
secondary at the top winding. It wasn't a large burn, but the kids got a
bigger kick out of that than they did with the streamers coming out of
the eye sockets.

Terry



-----Original Message-----
From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [TCML] Fire on Tesla Coil

I found this on the web a short while ago, just a random picture - but
it is
of a steel wire breakout that is, well, on fire:
http://research.microsoft.com/~swinder/sparks/vac_images2/pic00023.jpg
http://research.microsoft.com/~swinder/sparks/vactesla2.aspx

I would imagine that it wouldn't take much to light wood on fire on top
of a
secondary topload.  :)

On Dec 3, 2007 5:36 PM, <gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I put a balsa wood airplane on top of my 4" TC to see if I could get
some
> good pics of sparks coming off of the airplane. It took about 1 second
to
> catch the airplane on fire. I didn't have time to take any pictures.
LOL.
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