Break it out for Halloween. I do mine every year that weather cooperates. Kids love it, but I think parents love it more.
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:00 PM, Joe Mastroianni <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I will concur with David's sentiment.
After I built one of every configuration of coil I could - SGTC, ARSG,
SRSG, DRSSTC, class E - and then different sizes - 4"x22" all the way to
12"X54" - with toploads purchased from aluminum spinners and ones I made
from ducting, and then inevitably circles of piping - after I got two
big ones to play star warz music in my driveway - after I set dried
leaves on fire on my front lawn, after I detonated numerous capacitors
and IGBTs and had various high-speed rotary spark gaps KATO on me -
after all that, I just kind of ran out of steam.
There is still a lot of coil science/engineering going on. The
TeslaUniverse guys have never stopped and are perfecting all sorts of
drives and controllers. I think inevitably they'll create some version
of the coil that will have the free-energy aluminum-beanie UFO people to
believe once and for all that we've breached space-time. (Though now
they seem to be working on perfecting various Van Halen and Steve Vai
guitar solos in lightning).
But I don't know what to do next. I have 2 7' tall DRSSTC coils in my
garage, occupying the slot my car should have (I park outside). My
neighbors come by occasionally and ask me to do "shows" for various
children's birthday parties.
It wasn't my objective to supplant Barney the Purple Dinosaur as kids
birthday entertainment. But that's where coiling has got me, at the moment.
I need to think of something new...
But I still love coiling.
Joe
On 11/5/2013 6:34 PM, David Rieben wrote:
> Hi Phil & Tim,
>Â
> I think a lot of us out here are "lurking", not that the group has been abandoned. As for
> me personally, I suppose that I have kind of hit the ceiling of my involvement with Tesla
> coil related things and don't really have much more constructive info to add to most of
> the conversations on this list since the advent of DRSSTCs. I don't really have the mo-
> tivation (or the $$) to "start all over again" at the beginning of the learning curve to make
> the move from SGTCs to the all electronic versions of our beloved lightning machines ;^)
> Now as the subject of pole pig or PT driven SGTC systems still pops up now and again,
> I sometimes will chime in here, as I do have some practical and emperical knowledge
> along this aspect of coiling that I feel can occasionally be a very minor, but never-the-less
> positive contribution to the vast knowledge pool of this list.
>Â
> David Rieben
>Â
>Â
>
> From: Phil Tuck <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 'Tesla Coil Mailing List' <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 1:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Disc Dia.
>
>
> Tim,
> .
>
> You wrote >>"Thank you. AT least it's something to talk about."
> YES! What's happaned? A week 'off air' and everyone deserts - shamefull.
>
> Regards
> Phil T
>
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