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Registered Member #690
Joined: Tue May 08 2007, 03:47AM
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Hmmmmm, so if a 12 inch secondary gives me 500kV, then 12 12 inch secondaries in series should give me... 6 million volts!! At 1kV per mm, that's like 20ft arcs of lightning!!!!
See, this would not have happened if this poor, deluded fellow was a member of 4HV. By now he might have even cobbled together a working coil...
Registered Member #477
Joined: Tue Jun 20 2006, 11:51PM
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 546
GreySoul wrote ...
...hrm... I couldnt resist... I had to contact the seller and ask what was up. I offered him $10 for the coil, NST, and stand... Maybe I'll get lucky and win big!
Perhaps his "no way!" response will reveal how much *he* paid for the stuff. That could be just as entertaining
Registered Member #286
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I did some math to find out the resonant frequency of this coil in ideal conditions. The "Q" is really bad. The coil it's self has more surface capacitance than the topload.
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wrote ... "I don't have any pics of the coil running. It was not completed past the secondary and the stand. I did not have room for it and did not have good caps, transformer, and toroid. A coil with this many turns should produce extremely long streamers if tuned correctly. but will requir a powerful transformer to overcome resistance and a much larger toroid or sphere. as long as the winding is intact it should work if tuned right."
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Oh My God!! Funniest thing I've seen in weeks. 11,500 turns!!!??!! The resistance alone in that thing would be extreme. Without the secondary, $3200 seems a fair price for a 10.5kV NST and that state of the art stand with primary.
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BlackPlasma wrote ...
wrote ... "I don't have any pics of the coil running. It was not completed past the secondary and the stand. I did not have room for it and did not have good caps, transformer, and toroid. A coil with this many turns should produce extremely long streamers if tuned correctly. but will requir a powerful transformer to overcome resistance and a much larger toroid or sphere. as long as the winding is intact it should work if tuned right."
Sure...
Blackplasma, how don't you understand.. more turns => bigger streamers
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12ft Tesla coil: Get yours NOW!!
lol. Hmm... near audio resonant frequency Tesla coil. Wow 0.8H air coil.
