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Registered Member #1180
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Hello to all, and no I've not built it yet, but I wan't to build it. Girst thing however is what should I use to power it, and how much copper do you think it will eat up, because I don't want to spend over $1000 on copper alone (Ill probably end up manufactoring the caps.)
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Do you realise that Tesla coils produce much less voltage than would be needed to break down the same distance as the streamer length with DC voltage? A 14 Megavolt TC would, well, probably produce some 50 (or more) meter streamers (that's my best guess).
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I imagine you easily surpass $1000 for a copper, for the fact that with the sheer size of a secondary youd need would probably require like 16 or 14 gauge wire at a few thousand feet and from what I payed for last time with 6K feet of 30AWG and 3K feet of 28AWG wire at 60$.
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Ummm lets see, i think youd need something like 20 pole transformers in parallel?!?!?! I hope you dont intend to run this at your house, youll blow the substation fuse
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hmm, maybe not 50ft streamers then, what I really want is to build a machine that puts out 14' streamers, my current TC can only put out a 14" streamer at best, I need a more powerful machine, but all I have is a few kilometers of 28 gauge wire
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14 miilion volt TC
