RE: [TCML] Fire on Tesla Coil, ball of sparks

[gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Replace your top load with a pie pan from your kitchen.  Put about 1/4 cup of alcohol in the pie pan.  Not rubbing alcohol is contains water.  Buy some alcohol from the paint store it is 100% alcohol.  Ignite the alcohol it will burn a nice blue flame only about 4" above the pan.  Turn on the Tesla Coil it turns into a 36" ball of what appears to be millions of micro size blue sparks forming out of the pie pan.  When the alcohol burns away about 20 seconds the sparks go down to normal type TC streamers.  I have done this with my 4" TC.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry Oxandale <Toxandale@xxxxxxx>
>Sent: Dec 4, 2007 9:24 AM
>To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: [TCML] Fire on Tesla Coil
>
>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
>Behalf Of Tim Meehan
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:16 PM
>To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
>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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