"Plus...my and my lady-friend's morbid fascination with
our current & lamentable White House soap-opera."
Cant build tesla coils because of your TDS?
Well, isn't that unfortunate...
I thought politics weren't allowed in our posts.
Wheres the moderator?
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 3:21 PM Ken Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings, Tesla List-
>
> So...interest is diminishing, is it? Well, I,m sorry to hear it but the
> same here, tho the fact that I'm now 90 will have a lot to do with my
> own loss of it. Plus...my and my lady-friend's morbid fascination with
> our current & lamentable White House soap-opera. I remember the huge
> 3-phase 440V SG coil on display once, down south of San Francisco.
> Secondary wound with cable used in locomotives as I recall. 20 ft or so
> screaming, streaming and deafening arcs dancing all around, plus the
> accompanying SG. Yea!...Hooray! (Can't remember who made it...)
>
> But my interest was in SRSS coils since that's the technology Tesla
> himself would surely have used. His sparks were, of course, just to
> entertain prospective investors, since he wanted to broadcast power
> rather than make sparks. Cockamamie idea, that, but he didn't know
> (altho he may well have come to suspect it).
>
> Either whenever I can get to them from storage or else after, I will
> have 2, 12" x 3 & 4 ft undamaged secondary coils (self-resonant at ~100
> & 125 KHz), a Landergren 6" x 24", 6061-alloy toroid, and an unfinished
> primary assembly to offer up, in the East Bay area of San Francisco.
> The primary assy incorporates 4, "pancake"-style coils arrayed radially
> in order to create 4 flux paths thru the secondary. Those coils
> together with their s.s drivers are made and in place on a 4' x 4'
> platform. The rest of the primary apparatus consists of power supplies &
> misc. stuff, all intended to establish an overall positive-feedback loop
> from secondary-coil current-input to primary coil current-output. I'd
> supply prints of the schematics--some as finished, some not so.
>
> And BTW about the List's format: how come there are so many repeats of
> messages? Clutters it up way too much IMO.
>
> Ken Herrick
>
> Kensington, CA USA
>
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