[TCML] Tesla Coils in the news

[dave pierson <dave_p@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

[At Moderator Discretion...
Anyone know who built these?]

Tampa Bay LIGHTNING

http://www2.tbo.com/news/opinion/2011/oct/14/4/forum-getting-formidable-facelift-ar-272182/

...

"Have you seen the Tesla coils?" asked Lightning CEO Tod Leiweke.

...

But the show-stoppers either hang from the ceiling or sit on a raised 
platform.

First, we'd like to introduce you to the coils, the Tesla coils, 
originally named for Nikola Tesla, who is not a right winger for the 
Vancouver Canucks, but one of the fathers of electricity and invention, 
who roughly 120 years ago, bored out of his skull, no doubt, designed a 
coil that produced high voltage, low current, high frequency 
electricity, or: lightning.

The coils hang, 20 feet long, like death rays from the ceiling in the 
northwest and southeast corners of the Forum, though they apparently are 
quite safe. Still, when the switch is flipped, each Forum coil generates 
1.8 million watts of electricity in two directions, producing lightning 
bolts last seen in old or young Frankenstein movies, plus an all-its-own 
buzz that sounds like the world's two largest bug zappers. It's quite 
the electrical deal.
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[eg above should be
....1.8 million VOLTS...?]


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