[TCML] FYI: Tesla Coil at San Diego Museum (IMAX building)

[Davetracer@xxxxxxx]

If you're in San Diego and decide to go see the IMAX at the museum complex,  
you'll see a large "plasma bowl". But if you get down and look through the 
glass  at what pushes it, you will find a Tesla Coil, with the main windings  
horizontally mounted, and one glowing tube. I had to really look; it's an  811A. 
There's a massive transformer under all that (probably the plate power  
supply) and capacitors I am completely unfamiliar with.
 
This coil appears to run during normal museum hours. That's quite the duty  
cycle.
 
Good to see old friends in unexpected places!
 
 -- David Small
 
 
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