Re: [TCML] supposedly a tesla coil

[Garry Freemyer <garryfre@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

someone should show him a REAL tesla coil.

To call that a tesla coil is like taking a firecracker and calling it a bomb.



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From: "davep@xxxxxxxx" <davep@xxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 11, 2009 6:51:45 AM
Subject: Re: [TCML] supposedly a tesla coil

[not sure how much we wish to debate this....]

> No, and if you read the comments, the first poster says it's not a TC.
> Well, first meaning the top of the list when I read it.

>> > http://www.instructables.com/id/Quick-and-Dirty-Hand-Held-quotTesla-Coilquot/

>> > Although I myself would not classify it as one at all--Someone would
>> > contact Eric Wilhelm and get this 'instructable' demoted!

   Depends, I'd think, on how one defines 'Tesla Coil'.
   Tesla built iron/steel core 'coil' systems.

   Seems to me there would be HF....

   Perhaps not elegant, but....

   best
    dwp

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