I have a mushroom kill switch, and have a long enough driveway that I can safely kill it before they're 20' away. As loud and intimidating as it would seem, I did have one girl that stuck her hand out as she approached. Guess she thought it was a plasma globe.
On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:56 PM, David <drieben@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I have often thought of doing that but I really fear the liability in case some trick or treater ventured too close to my machine before I could hit the kill switch (probably not gonna happen, as it's not too conducive to approach while in operation - but still). I often use July 4th fireworks and the occasional visitor(s) requesting a demo as an excuse to drag out my Green Monster.
David Rieben
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> On Nov 6, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Break it out for Halloween. I do mine every year that weather cooperates. Kids love it, but I think parents love it more.
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> 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
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>> 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.
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>>
>> Tim,
>> .
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>> 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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