Re: Duncan Cadd on Tesla Coils

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

He shows that a Van de Graaf generator and Tesla coil operate on the 
same concept, but with the Tesla coil replacing the Van de Graaf's 
moving belt with a sinusoidal AC current pushing the charge up to the 
topload capacitor and the secondary serving as equipotential rings.

Just thought I'd share this if anyone is interested

Chris Westland"

   He may show it but "it ain't so"!  Very interesting site, 
particularly his home-made quenched gap.  Having contemplated making 
one many times I see that he put about as much effort into it as I 
figured it would be.  Fortunately I picked up a real WW1 surplus 
quenched gap which works really great on a small coil.  Lot of good 
reading here although, even though I'm a shooter myself, I didn't 
care for the picture with the semiauto.

Ed