Re: [TCML] Was Primary Grounding now RF gnd Center ball safety gap / primary strikes

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

No. Just an old vacuum cleaner motor mounted under the primary, and a bit of shiny copper tubing (sorry Bart, I like copper). Certainly less work than building a primary, secondary, control cabinet, topload, rsg, etc.

In fact, the outer turns of the primary can be perforated in a few minutes, then connected to a blower via a short run of insulating Tygon tubing.

However, I'll bet for a smaller coil, four muffin or microwave oven fans (I know you already have dozens in your junk box for??) would probably do the trick.

Adam

--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Phillip Slawinski <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Phillip Slawinski <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Was Primary Grounding now RF gnd Center ball safety gap / primary strikes
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 10:06 PM

> Maybe this would work, but aren't we getting a little
> bit too elaborate?
> You'd have to drag out an air compressor, air tank, or
> similar to make this
> work.  To me the simplest solutions often turn out to be
> the best ones.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 20:07, bartb
> <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Forget the copper. Just use LDPE tubing or similar.
> Garden supply at Home
> > Depot probably has the holes already in tubing ready
> to go.
> > Bart
> >
> > Yurtle Turtle wrote:
> >
> >> Heck, why am I so stupid? Simply add (or modify) a
> strike rail of copper
> >> pipe as usual. Add an air source, then drill holes
> every inch or so, to
> >> create a discharge header. Should work GREAT!
> Heck, you can aim the holes
> >> for maximum effect.
> >>
> >> Adam



      
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