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Registered Member #10
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
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I'm not sure what the transformers are but around the 10kV each suggests a PT. I found these two in a transformer bin in a junkyard and got them for the scrap iron/copper weight. They had some much larger multi pancake transformers but sadly too large. The coil is only firing at about 5 feet sparks in this photo because I gave my son a limit. Nevertheless it should do much better than the 8ft best so far. I haven't put it through JavaTC because that won't run on my computer.
Registered Member #10
Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
Location: Bunbury, Australia
Posts: 1424
The cage wasn't hot but the chainmail glove is earthed by 2 separate bolts. These were standard steel bolts but got hot enough with the RF losses to give me a slight thermal burn. The welding type sparks are from some steel wool on the ends of all the spark contact points.
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Joined: Tue Mar 06 2007, 10:55AM
Location: Singapore
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Good grief. Nice stunt! Also, is it just my eyes, or when you were using the dalek cage, were there streamers coming off the cage itself? I watched the video a couple of times and I'm pretty sure I saw something like that.
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Location: Jacksonville, FL
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I love the part where you pray to the tesla god and the new coil appears. When your in the cage it seems you look directly into the spark, how bright is it?
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Tesla Envy - the video.
