RE: [TCML] Coils at Maker Faire

["Dr.Hankenstein" <dr.hankenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Very cool, Greg! Thank you for sharing your efforts with us. Any
approximate idea how much power your "robbing" to motivate your "Tesla
Roadster" chair?
I like it,

Hank


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From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Greg Leyh
Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 7:14 PM
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Subject: [TCML] Coils at Maker Faire

Hi All,

It was good to meet the small handful of Bay Area coilers that made it 
to Maker Faire this year.  Here's a clip of the solid-state twin coils 
producing ~18ft arcs, at about 7kW throughput:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cj5kiPTrt8

Here's a close-up of our new 'Tesla Roadster' with Mike Kennan at the 
wheel.  The roadster has no batteries;  the motive power comes from an 
onboard 'reverse Tesla coil' that extracts energy from the ambient 
electric field when the coils are energized:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuAkdynoMuM

Note that the coils are set not to breakout for this demo, as the arcs 
tend to steal considerable power from the machines.  Two other smaller 
machines can be seen twirling around in the background.  They also use 
the same reverse Tesla coil system for motive power.   GL

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