Re: [TCML] Mid-South MIni Teslathon

["Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just posted pictures from the mini teslathon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pslawinski/

Enjoy

On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 8:35 AM, David Rieben <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, Phillip Slawinski and Cameron Prince made the
> 3 1/2 hour drive from the Huntsville, AL area to my place
> near Memphis, TN  for a fun-filled afternoon and evening
> of comradery and coil firing. Phillip brought his entire new-
> ly built coil system (and Cameron) in his Volkswagon. Of
> course he had to transport it disassembled and reassemble
> it upon arrival. Besides the typical sweltering July heat and
> humidity, the weather completely cooperated for all of our
> outdoor coiling activities :^) Phillip has really learned fast
> about coiling since he has only been at it since May. His
> 6" secondaried coil with his double toroid really rocked
> to only be pushed by depotted 15/30 NST. Of course,
> the 15/30 did get really hot pretty fast as he had removed
> most of the shunts. His persistant questions to this list has
> paid off. When evening arrived we just had to roll out the
> Green Monster and let her rip ;^) We actually tried setting
> the whole tank circuit assembly upon jack stands to raise
> it another 18" or so off the ground since the Green Monster
> only stands just under 8 ft. tall. I desingned it this "short" due
> to the limited overhead storage clearance. This made the
> sparks hit the ground a little less often and let us get 12 ft.+
> arcs more often. We got one "freak" strike to a 6 ft. aluminum
> stepladder "strike target" at right at 15 ft. and got  two or
> three hits out to 13'10". Since my secondary coil is a 12.5" x
> 49" unit and the toroid is a 12x56, I believe I have just about
> maxed out the spark LENGTH that I can get from this beast.
> It seems that once I reach about 50 to 60 amps input, the sparks
> don't really get significantly longer when I push it on up to 90 amps,
> just brighter and louder. We played with Phillips coil and tried
> various taps and even tried Cameron's little SRSG that he
> brought along with the coil. It seemed that the SRSG was
> out of phase when we tried it though and Phillip's coil got
> the best output with his own sucker gap. We also fired off
> my PT powered 6" coil and had it really rocking and rolling
> with 6 to 8 ft. arcs. All in all, we had a great time until we finally
> (re)disaasembled Phillip's coil and loaded it back into his VW
> for their return trip to northern AL, around 10:30 PM.
>
> --
> David Rieben
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