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Does anyone live near me that does tesla coils or high voltage? (Texas)

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Arcstarter
Sat Apr 12 2008, 07:26PM
Arcstarter Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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That would be an absolute dream for me! He is the one who taught me every thing about sgtc. I owe most of my tc knowledge to him.
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Ultra7
Sat Apr 12 2008, 08:03PM
Ultra7 Registered Member #1157 Joined: Thu Dec 06 2007, 12:11PM
Location: Houston, TX
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I guess I could actually start trying to organize a Texas Teslathon as I have a weekend off finally. I'll start shooting some emails out.

Don't go overboard with your SGTC just yet. You know how slow us Texans can be sometimes.

Try those Party cup capacitors I showed ya, they are my old go to when I need some "experiment" caps. That way if I blow those up, I haven't blown up a bunch of my cash as well.

I'm building Dan's Minibrute atm.
Once I get that built I'll be back to 3 coils.
I blew up my SSTC last weekend goofing around with it and looks like I've scorched the board up pretty good. I'll have to remake another PCB for it. And rather than fooling with that I think I'll just buy up a couple of Dan's Plasmasonic boards and build those after the DRSSTC.
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Arcstarter
Mon Apr 14 2008, 07:35PM
Arcstarter Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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teslacoolguy wrote ...

I live in Ohio but 3/4 of the year i am in Florida and i know that is not to close but if you want to be friends sure and im not wierd trust me.
Yes that would be cool cheesey

So..Anyone else live anywhere around here? If so i would like to purchase any high voltage capacitors. I have some coming on the way and i will buy some that ultra7 suggested but the more the better!
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Firefox
Thu Apr 24 2008, 01:04AM
Firefox Registered Member #1389 Joined: Thu Mar 13 2008, 12:50AM
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Another great way of getting HV capacitors is to make them using old windows. Plate glass has a nice dielectric constant of around 3.7 and a dielectric strength at about 8kv/mm. Just find the thickness as best you can using whatever measuring tool is available (though a caliper is nice) and then use this calculation to find the capacitance: C=kEA/d, where C is capacitance, k is the dielectric constant, A is the area of one plate, and d is the distance between the plates (or the thickness of the dielectric). My glass cabinet door (minus hardware) 800 pF 26KV cap works very well for driving my first Tesla coil. Basically all the parts of my TC were recycled from other uses like this to make one of the cheapest ways of getting into the hobby.
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Arcstarter
Fri Apr 25 2008, 05:38PM
Arcstarter Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
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Firefox wrote ...

Another great way of getting HV capacitors is to make them using old windows. Plate glass has a nice dielectric constant of around 3.7 and a dielectric strength at about 8kv/mm. Just find the thickness as best you can using whatever measuring tool is available (though a caliper is nice) and then use this calculation to find the capacitance: C=kEA/d, where C is capacitance, k is the dielectric constant, A is the area of one plate, and d is the distance between the plates (or the thickness of the dielectric). My glass cabinet door (minus hardware) 800 pF 26KV cap works very well for driving my first Tesla coil. Basically all the parts of my TC were recycled from other uses like this to make one of the cheapest ways of getting into the hobby.
Yes, i have one glass capacitor that uses a piece of glass from a scanner. I just need some more glass.
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Conundrum
Sat Apr 26 2008, 07:15AM
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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hmm... hang around a few computer shops. Ask them really nicely if they'll let you have their dead TFT panels/scanners/etc.

I once obtained 3 scanners that way, just needed to know who to ask.

-A
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Arcstarter
Sun Apr 27 2008, 06:02PM
Arcstarter Registered Member #1225 Joined: Sat Jan 12 2008, 01:24AM
Location: Beaumont, Texas, USA
Posts: 2253
Sorry about being slightly off topic. Lets get back on topic, shall we? Does anyone who lives in texas want to trade? I have some HOTs and other components. I also have some vacuum tubes that may be good for a first vttc or an amp. I know this may sound like it should be in trade, but I am just trying to get people to speak up.
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