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

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a really interesting effect.  Any pics?

Cheers
Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:58 AM
Subject: RE: [TCML] Fire on Tesla Coil, ball of sparks


> 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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