RE: Laser guided Tesla Coil

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Original poster: "Aron Koscho" <kc5uto@xxxxxx>

At the Texas tesla thon a few years back we attached about 100' or so of
small magnet wire to a balloon and then to the top of my 20KVA 10" coil.
It produced about 12-18" streamers (with out the wire the coil was doing
about 16') all along the length of the wire, set the balloon on fire,
and melted the wire off causing a flaming balloon to float off.
Fortunately this was in an area where this was not a problem and the
balloon fire extinguished before it landed. A cool thing to see provided
you have a non flammable balloon and/or a safe area to do it.

-Aron

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Original poster: "S&JY" <youngs@xxxxxxxxx>

Except a long trailing wire would quickly detune the secondary and spoil
the
fun.  I think a jet of Argon would be more interesting.
--Steve Y.

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Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Bottle rocket on top of an operating coil sounds like an interesting
experiment.  Perhaps even trailing 100 feet of #32 AWG wire behind it
as it leaves the toroid?  A big 8 oz size rocket should lift the 100
feet of wire with ease.

Sounds like a great experiment for our Big Bruiser next summer.

Dr. Resonance

 >Hi Ed,
 >
 >It could be, but I think I remember some rockets that didn't have a
 >trailing wire.
 >
 >Gerry R







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