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RE: [TCML] Prepare a Hot Dog

On a serious note, unless you have a large TC such as one of Bill W's, I doubt you can cook a dog. However, almost any TC can cook meat if you connect it across the extreme ends primary of your coil. This is in effect a D'Arsonval coil and was exactly the same as the early 1/2 to 1 KW spark gap diathermy machines. Big sparks do not necessarily mean cooked meat. One other suggestion would be to put metal in each end of the dog and connect the two pieces to a small magnifying coil or even a couple of metal plates, in effect making a hertz type transmitter/ receiver.
Word to the wise tho, the cooked meat smells and tastes terrible! In a closed room you might find the gag reflex being triggered. 

A microwave, grill or boiling water does a much better job!

Frank

At 10:52 PM 1/23/2010 +1300, you wrote:


Exploding tomatoes and hotdogs.
Interestng stuff and highly enlightening to the greater scientific
community!
Nothing wrong with a ccoking lesson here I guess!

Keep up the fun.

Thanks
Andrew





-----Original Message-----
From: David%20Rieben [mailto:drieben@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, 23 January 2010 2:49 a.m.
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Subject: Re: [TCML] Prepare a Hot Dog



Hi Jim, Adam,



Jim, I'm sure you are correct about the energy

vs. mass/specific heat  issue of completely

"vaporizing" an average sized tomato, as you

have already eloquently "ran the numbers" for

us. However, I would also propose that although

the inards of the tomato would not be totally vaporized,

I do believe that the sheer percussive kinetic force

of a 10 kJ discharge that was properly directed

into the central mass of the tomato would indeed

"blow it apart" even if the resultant temperature

of the remaining tomato pieces was not signifi-

cantly above ambient. Of course, this is also

assuming that the 10 kJ is discharged into or

inside the tomato through a low enough impedance

path to allow for a rapid enough discharge time. I think

Peter Terren has video of this being done on his

website tesladownunder.com. and I'm sure you

could also find some interesting vids of similar

experiments on Youtube.



David Rieben





----- Original Message -----
From: "jimlux" <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:22:59 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Re: [TCML] Prepare a Hot Dog

Yurtle Turtle wrote:
> Presto Hot Dogger:
> http://www.liftcharge.com/index.htm?pg=item&item=270
>
> literally hit the hot dog with 120 vac. No current limiting. I suspect the
current drawn was dependent on the brand of hot dog. If you are feeling
adventurous, you could easily stab two nails in either end of a hot dog and
measure the current 120 volts pulls.
>
> I once hit a tomato with 10 kV, 10 kJ! It flew up 15 feet and splatted
into the ceiling. I was amazed it didn't vaporize. Hitting a watermellon at
15 kJ is still on my "to do" list.
>
> Adam
>
10kJ isn't even close to enough to vaporize a 100-200g tomato.  It will
barely even get it to boiling.

10 kJ does a nice job vaporizing a meter of thin copper wire, but there's
not much mass there.
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