Re: Hand cranked Tesla Coil?

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Original poster: "James Howells" <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Peter for the confirmation about the links ..... I did notice 
, eventually that was the problem and wondered if there was some 
secret ( to me) way  to manipulate them
I was just too worried about embarrassing myself to ask  "on List"

I tried copying half the link directly but it always highlighted to 
the end , so I usually copy and past to the address line of my 
browser then delete the surplus.



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Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Hand cranked Tesla Coil?


> 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.