Seeing the kind of junk programming the Discovery Channel shows now, a title with "Death Ray" in it was just what they were looking for.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Sweeney" <msweeney23@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 12:32:49 PM
Subject: Re: [TCML] Death Ray?
Yeah Aron and his crew are the only reason I watched the show, in fact
towards the end I just started skipping through to those scenes.
I am still not sure why they called it the 'Death Ray', isn't it basically
just a large Coil? What I could not figure out was if the coil was driven
via solid state or old school spark gap?
I would kill to have a shop like that though...
Matt
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 12:22 PM Andrew Robinson <arobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> The person you speak of in the show building the coil is Aron Koscho. He
> owns and operates aTTi (www.appliedteslatech.com) as well as what was
> KVA effects (www.teslacoil.com) for you older guys out there. Aron has
> been part of the tesla community for years and has intentionally stepped
> away from the list and the hobbiest side of coiling. He actually used to
> moderate the list years ago. He is a very close friend of mine and we
> have had multiple discussions concerning the show. He was approached a
> while ago to do that show and actually turned down Discovery several
> times for a lot of the reasons you guys have already mentioned. Yes, I
> agree (as does Aron), there are several portions of the show that are
> cringe worthy. At the end of the day, Discovery needed to introduce some
> drama into the show which is why there are so many cringy scenes. We
> should all be grateful though. Aron stood by his guns during the
> production process and flat out refused multiple times to say certain
> things on camera that were just flat out lies or too on the conspiracy
> theory side of things. While yes, there were LOTS of cringy scenes that
> any veteran tesla people on here should have been able to immediately
> point out as fake, it could have gone a LOT worse if Aron had let
> Discovery do the REAL conspiracy theory show they wanted to do. So be
> thankful lol.
>
> PS, Some good did come of the show. The documents from the archive
> (while behind the scenes were already preselected) were in fact never
> before published. Aron, Cameron, and the Discovery are currently the
> only individuals from the public currently known have copies of those
> documents. Of course they don't say anything useful, but still pretty
> neat. I need to remind Aron again to send me the PDF's he has of the
> documents, including the ones that were not shared on the TV show!
>
> Cheers
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