Re: [TCML] Crock Croft Walton Voltage Multiplier

["Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was the discharger for the one Dr. Resonance (DC Cox) built for hair 
raising.

It was about 7' tall with a 24 x 5" torid for the HV terminal.  Supports for 
the column were fiberglass.  Capacitors had aluminium spheres for terminals. 
The top stage was about 4.5 feet off the base, and the rest was output 
resistor.  Output was somewhere around 180 KV.

Getting near it to discharge it would raise the hair on your arms 6 feet 
away, and the spark from the top of the multiplier section was a good 6-8" 
and sounds like a gunshot.  I had to discharge both sides of the resistor 
before the person was allowed to get down from the platform.  Make sure that 
there is metal to metal contact made before letting the person down.

Here's one of Terry Blake's pics from that Teslathon.
http://www.tb3.com/tesla/teslathonCH2003/pages/P9060067.htm

David Weiss 

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