Re: motor power?

["Jason Johnson" <hvjjohnson13-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

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Subject: motor power?


> Original poster: "Richard Barton" <richardbarton-at-caving5.freeserve.co.uk>
>
> Hi all
> I've got this idea for powering a tiny D.C. motor, without any
> connecting wires, from my tesla coil.
> If I hooked up a tiny antenna, feeding into a coil, with a variable
> capacitor
> for tuning, and a diode, into a subminiature brush motor, could I get it
to
> run?
> Has anyone ever tried this ?
> Richard Barton.
>

Don't know if it would or not. Sounds interesting though. Why don't you try
it and post results.

Jason Johnson