April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
ShawnLG, Sun Apr 01 2007, 05:52AMI got you guys good, thats if you did not notice the oddness of the picture in my "RGTC first light" thread. The "high voltage lab" was staged.
The TC is real, but it's actual size and specs where lied about.
The real specs and pictures:
Secondary:
350~ turns unknown gauge
3.5 cm tall
1 cm diameter
Topload:
3.2 cm diameter by .8 cm high
Primary:
4 turns conical 18 gauge
Tank cap:
4 * 1500v metallized film capacitors in series with 1/2 watt 10 Mohm bleeders. Unknown capacitance (I should of written the value down somewhere before gluing the whole thing together!
)Rotary:
1.6 cm diameter disk with four electrodes
5 mm diameter pager motor used
Power supply:
7kv air ionizer power supply. 2.4 watts was measured at PS input at full power.
Adhesives used during assembly:
Solder (conductive joints)
Wood glue (wooded joints)
hot glue (non wooded joints)
Pictures:
1 The stage
2 Early prototype
3 Primery & secondary
4 MMC bank with resistors and chokes
5 Rotary front view
6 Rotary back view
7 Rotary module complete
8 MMC in it's new home
9 Everything installed
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdgghtMp1sQ
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Ken M., Sun Apr 01 2007, 06:08AM
*Applaude* Very nice I never clicked the link so I just figured it was a full sized coil, but we'll done
Ken M., Sun Apr 01 2007, 06:08AM
*Applaude* Very nice I never clicked the link so I just figured it was a full sized coil, but we'll done
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
..., Sun Apr 01 2007, 06:45AM
wow, that is pretty amazing. I love the craftsmanship! Now try making that coil work solid state
Funny you should use a air ioniser supply for it, I just installed a pair of whole house electrostatic air cleaners (to replace the 1 we had pre remodel) and was thinking that board would make a sweet power supply. Too bad they cost over a thousand bux new...
Reminds me of my very first coil, 3cc syringe with about 100 turns of 32awg wire, a 5 turn helical primary, powered by a 20w plasma globe supply rectified with a big string of sf1600 diodes, and going into a micro mmc of 3 strings of 4 series .22nf 5kv ceramic caps, with a spark gap made of 2 wood screws screwed into a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe. About the same spark output. Unfortunately my digicam came afer its creation...
..., Sun Apr 01 2007, 06:45AM
wow, that is pretty amazing. I love the craftsmanship! Now try making that coil work solid state
Funny you should use a air ioniser supply for it, I just installed a pair of whole house electrostatic air cleaners (to replace the 1 we had pre remodel) and was thinking that board would make a sweet power supply. Too bad they cost over a thousand bux new...
Reminds me of my very first coil, 3cc syringe with about 100 turns of 32awg wire, a 5 turn helical primary, powered by a 20w plasma globe supply rectified with a big string of sf1600 diodes, and going into a micro mmc of 3 strings of 4 series .22nf 5kv ceramic caps, with a spark gap made of 2 wood screws screwed into a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe. About the same spark output. Unfortunately my digicam came afer its creation...
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Steve Ward, Sun Apr 01 2007, 07:45AM
Hehe, good one. You really played "newbie" quite well (especially the thing about the cap, but the secondary dimensions were good too, and the lack of details in the first post).
Steve Ward, Sun Apr 01 2007, 07:45AM
Hehe, good one. You really played "newbie" quite well (especially the thing about the cap, but the secondary dimensions were good too, and the lack of details in the first post).
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
gentoo_daemon, Sun Apr 01 2007, 03:17PM
yes, very good.
I was thinking that the bottle on the first picture was kind of strange, and there was a giant piece of solder laying on the floor. If you had that up on ebay, I bet people would have bid on it.
gentoo_daemon, Sun Apr 01 2007, 03:17PM
yes, very good.
I was thinking that the bottle on the first picture was kind of strange, and there was a giant piece of solder laying on the floor. If you had that up on ebay, I bet people would have bid on it.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
ShawnLG, Sun Apr 01 2007, 03:47PM
"Now try making that coil work solid state "
This would be very difficult, since I do not have any SSTC experience. I have three IRFR220A in the I-PAK size case that could be used.
"Hehe, good one. You really played "newbie" quite well (especially the thing about the cap, but the secondary dimensions were good too, and the lack of details in the first post)."
I had a hard time coming up with plausible specs for that spoof.
ShawnLG, Sun Apr 01 2007, 03:47PM
"Now try making that coil work solid state "
This would be very difficult, since I do not have any SSTC experience. I have three IRFR220A in the I-PAK size case that could be used.
"Hehe, good one. You really played "newbie" quite well (especially the thing about the cap, but the secondary dimensions were good too, and the lack of details in the first post)."
I had a hard time coming up with plausible specs for that spoof.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Tom540, Sun Apr 01 2007, 05:09PM
HAHA that's awesome. Nice work. You shoulda made a follow up pic saying" I think I got it tuned" and then had the whole garage filled with 10' sparks. Well what would appear to be 10' sparks.
Tom540, Sun Apr 01 2007, 05:09PM
HAHA that's awesome. Nice work. You shoulda made a follow up pic saying" I think I got it tuned" and then had the whole garage filled with 10' sparks. Well what would appear to be 10' sparks.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Electroholic, Sun Apr 01 2007, 09:18PM
Damn you got me good, nice one!
cool garage+coil setup.
Electroholic, Sun Apr 01 2007, 09:18PM
Damn you got me good, nice one!
cool garage+coil setup.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Avalanche, Sun Apr 01 2007, 09:47PM
very good, you got me with that one too
I never viewed the photo full size either, but I did notice the topload looked a bit odd.
Avalanche, Sun Apr 01 2007, 09:47PM
very good, you got me with that one too
I never viewed the photo full size either, but I did notice the topload looked a bit odd.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
hvguy, Mon Apr 02 2007, 03:24AM
I was a little curious about the pic. It was the bottle on the left that gave it away. Very good job though, I though it was odd but didn’t connect the dots. Cool little coil!
hvguy, Mon Apr 02 2007, 03:24AM
I was a little curious about the pic. It was the bottle on the left that gave it away. Very good job though, I though it was odd but didn’t connect the dots. Cool little coil!
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Brett Miller, Mon Apr 02 2007, 04:03AM
ShawnLG
That's great! Hands down the best thing about the prank was the fact that you pulled off the scam with the scale difference fakery on the "staged HV lab". I love it!
-Brett
Brett Miller, Mon Apr 02 2007, 04:03AM
ShawnLG
That's great! Hands down the best thing about the prank was the fact that you pulled off the scam with the scale difference fakery on the "staged HV lab". I love it!
-Brett
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Marko, Mon Apr 02 2007, 06:04PM
Beautiful shawn... I saw something not_alright, and then I recognized the HDD ring on top..
Very cleverly done
Any ideas for some bigger arcs out of it..?
Marko, Mon Apr 02 2007, 06:04PM
Beautiful shawn... I saw something not_alright, and then I recognized the HDD ring on top..
Very cleverly done
Any ideas for some bigger arcs out of it..?
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
ShawnLG, Mon Apr 02 2007, 06:21PM
"Any ideas for some bigger arcs out of it..?"
Since the coil is only using 2.4 watts. I could put more current into it for more BPS. The streamers should grow longer. I would need to build a power supply to do this.
ShawnLG, Mon Apr 02 2007, 06:21PM
"Any ideas for some bigger arcs out of it..?"
Since the coil is only using 2.4 watts. I could put more current into it for more BPS. The streamers should grow longer. I would need to build a power supply to do this.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Part Scavenger, Wed Apr 04 2007, 11:46PM
Got me too, that's pretty awesome Shawn!
Part Scavenger, Wed Apr 04 2007, 11:46PM
Got me too, that's pretty awesome Shawn!
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
Bored Chemist, Fri Apr 06 2007, 11:57AM
Well, if you get bored of HV you can get a job making doll's house furniture.
It also puts a new meaning to Electroholic's comment about it.
"tank cap is way too small."
Sure is.
Bored Chemist, Fri Apr 06 2007, 11:57AM
Well, if you get bored of HV you can get a job making doll's house furniture.
It also puts a new meaning to Electroholic's comment about it.
"tank cap is way too small."
Sure is.
Re: April fools fellow 4HVers. (RGTC first light) prank
ShawnLG, Fri Apr 06 2007, 02:05PM
"Well, if you get bored of HV you can get a job making doll's house furniture."
Yea right. I can make tesla coils for doll houses. Barbie would just love it.
ShawnLG, Fri Apr 06 2007, 02:05PM
"Well, if you get bored of HV you can get a job making doll's house furniture."
Yea right. I can make tesla coils for doll houses. Barbie would just love it.
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