Re: Hand cranked Tesla Coil?

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Never throw out a challenge to make small sparks without expecting me 
to respond....
Today, I have made 1/4 inch sparks with a hand generator (antique 
telephone) and my mini coil using one instead of 4 segments for the 
static gap. The generator was giving 100V peak AC under load into the 
NST.  (Mains is 375V peak AC). Pic on my site already here.
http://tesladownunder.com/Solid%20State.htm#Hand-cranked%20TC
(don't forget that the Tesla list gives the address twice in a row 
hence doesn't link properly. You need to cut and paste from one 
"http://....."; to just up to the next "http://..."; so nothing is repeated)

Peter



> Original poster: "M G" <gt4awd@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi again, I would like to know if anyone on the list has built a 
> "human" powered Tesla Coil. Be it a hand crank, peddle powered 
> generator, etc... For some reason this seems to be of interest to me 
> lately, and I can't get it off my mind. Eventually I would like to 
> build my own little AC generator. Is this a highly complicated task 
> or not so complicated? Be it either of those I would still like to 
> do this eventually. I had ran into a website showing the creation of 
> a wind mill AC generator, but lost the URL since then. It did not 
> seem to be all that complicated, although some special fabrication 
> of metal seemed to be needed. The mill would create over 30 amps at 
> 120volts with a wind speed of 20mph. I would assume that a peddle 
> powered generator (old bike) could be made to move at least 10amps 
> at 120vo! lts. A hand crank maybe being able to move about 5 amps at 120volts.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt G.