Re: [TCML] Tesladownunder update, briefcase coil, lots of sparks etc

[mddeming@xxxxxxx]

Hi Peter,


Great work!?Being one who shares your philosophy, if not your artistic ability I look forward to seeing your next projects.
As my feisty old aunt use to say, "Size matters when it's all you have to offer." ;^))

Cheers,

Matt D.


-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Terren <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, Jun 24, 2009 4:00 pm
Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesladownunder update, briefcase coil, lots of sparks etc


Here we come to where my philosophy is different to many coilers:?
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I did not design the original mini coil, did not run it through Java TC etc or use proper MMC's.?
It was specifically meant as a low output coil that is safe for supervised children to use. Prickly but not painful. It does not have major grounding issues and is safer to phones and computers nearby.?
10 inch sparks onto your tongue might not be as tasty....?
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Length in Tesla coils is no measure of the success of the coil to me (or the public). Hence 2 inch sparks from the mini coil have been seen to be newsworthy enough (in the right place at the right time) to have 3 different TV channels cameras shooting at once. What mattered was the ability to get a shot of sparks and an enthralled child enjoying science, lighting up a short neon in closeup.?
http://tesladownunder.com/Media.htm#Cosmology?
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I no longer get hung up on peak performance. Other people do that far better, but instead I focus increasingly on the artistic aspects of coiling.?
There is still a huge amount of Tesla coiling I want to do. Three of these projects have never been done before. Two very different ones will be happy with 4 foot sparks and one with 1/2 inch. You will want to see all three much more than more 7-11ft sparks from my big coil. They should be WOW projects. Yet I still haven't even built a DRSSTC (but may need to).?
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So just a suggestion to think outside the box and you might beat me to those new projects. They aren't hard.?
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Cheers?
Peter?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dex Dexter" <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx>?
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>?
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:34 AM?
Subject: Re: [TCML] Tesladownunder update, briefcase coil, lots of sparks etc?
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> Peter,why are sparks from your mini and briefcase coils so short??
> I have also a small static gap coil runing from 5 kv 20 mA NST and it > gives 10" spark output.?
> Maybe you're not using all available power from your 4 kv 24 mA NST??
> BTW, 100 VA (or 96 VA) is far from being a safe tesla coil level.?
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> I know ,I tested it on myself.?
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> Dex?
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