Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil

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Original poster: scott <scottxs@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:

> 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.

Its probably well it happened quickly, as the FCC would hunt you down
and spank you for putting going "on air". A small TC resonating with at
a higher frequency with a smaller top load capacitance might make a lot
of noise.

Scott