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EEYORE

Tue May 02 2006, 07:38PM

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Anyone tried HV painting with a tesla coil?Seems one could throw a bunch of paint on a piece of glass, and put an electrode under the glass for the HV to be attracted to...Could make for some neat abstract art?

Matt

Steve Conner

Thu May 04 2006, 11:41AM

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Part Scavenger pretty much summed up the reason why I kind of lost interest. Building a Tesla coil and playing with it is fun. But building a computer or an audio amp is just as much fun, and then it goes on to do useful things for you every day for years. I probably ran my DRSSTC for about 10 minutes in the ~1 year since I built it, but I use my PC and stereo for about an hour or two every day.

The other reason I lost interest was that I kind of got the DRSSTC model figured out to the point where I could build any size coil I wanted. I have the kind of mentality that once I've proved I can do something in theory, I can hardly be bothered actually doing it, especially if it's going to be really expensive, dangerous, and a huge hassle.

The projects I plan to do next are... believe it or not... another computer and another audio amp

I plan to keep on contributing to 4hv.org, as long as you don't mind reading about Linux and total harmonic distortion instead of Tesla coils

I updated

with a statement of what will and won't be happening from now on.

mattrg: I've seen a website with exactly that kind of HV painting on it. But I can't remember where I saw it

Carbon_Rod

Thu May 04 2006, 12:29PM

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I think Tesla-coil Internet links will be low speed â€“ but can be heard anywhere. =P

In the future there will be silence.

HV Enthusiast

Thu May 04 2006, 02:09PM

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The other reason I lost interest was that I kind of got the DRSSTC model figured out to the point where I could build any size coil I wanted. I have the kind of mentality that once I've proved I can do something in theory, I can hardly be bothered actually doing it, especially if it's going to be really expensive, dangerous, and a huge hassle.

Thats why i design and build these thinigs for profit. Anything i can do to support this extravagant lifestyle i lead as an engineer!

If i didn't make all the money i do, i'd have to sell my luxurious '99 Honda!

robert

Thu May 04 2006, 05:23PM

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Well, i also will finish my large coil, sell it and most high-voltage related stuff in a short while too.
Even if its fun, its entirely useless and way too expensive and time-consuming.
Ill also quit 4hv soon, so if there are any questions you wanted to ask me, do this now.

Avalanche

Thu May 04 2006, 05:33PM

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I've only been interested in HV for about a couple of years, and in that time it has been on and off. I struggle a lot for any free time to do anything, so have a lot more ideas than time usually! This summer though, I will be building a few things, but I don't want to spend the whole summer building coils. Need to balance my time with that one. I can understand how you could lose interest in coiling though, half of the fun I find is building new coils to try new ideas and seeing the result - I suppose once you have 'cracked it', there's not a great deal more to do. But I can hardly speak, as I have a long way to go on that one

As for the future of coiling, I guess a lot more people will start building solid state coils due to the information spreading on the net. Hopefully the price of semiconductors will fall as new ones are developed. It was only a few days ago I found some very cheap IGBTs on Farnell, 220A pulse rating for Â£2.70 something. The mass presence of coils will hopefully spread Teslas name around a bit more too, and his achievements which have been just about ignored/credited to others. That might happen, anyway. Everyone might have a Tesla coil in their living room in 10 years, also.

vasil

Thu May 04 2006, 09:04PM

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I have a new hobby too...numismatics, mhh.. I dont think that the fall of the year will catch me in the tesla field also. I felt this from some time...but Steve was the first who said it. Maibe one reason was i just felt too alone as tesla hobbyist in this part of the earth.

Anyway, the 4hv herritage is in the TDU thread for all the newbies who will come after us.

Terry Fritz

Thu May 04 2006, 10:41PM

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I have to think on Steve's comments....

I gave up making computers and audio amps to get into coiling :o)))) My tri-amplified beautiful oak/brass stereo system with the electronic crossvers and sythetic bass boost balanced to the speaker enclosers hasen't been turned on in years now :o))) All the black components are white on top from the layers of dust :o))) I think THD and noise floors are a thing of the past with active volume controls

)) Now I get the super SONY MP3 player decks for the car just to tease my little nieces. "Old Terrey" has a better stereo in his 89 ford than all her boyfreind's can even imagine having :o))) But nowdays they try and knock my car over with their 10,000W bass... They will be deaf in a few years, so I will be pateint

) I think the "I-pod" thing replaced the stereo... I am the last person on Earth not to have one... Now I seem to listen to web server cooling fans all day...

Computers are sort of like paper towels... When the old one runs out, go get a new one... But I don't think the 3GHz monster I have now will run out very soon... I run computers for six years on average... I bought my first one in 1977... Before Steve was born!!!! OK, now I feel old

))

Linux stuff is super cool!!! But I am not too much into "real" coumputer stuff now.... Mostly running the E-mail and web browsers as opposed to programming...

But Tesla coils are just odd enough and unpredictable enough to keep me entertained... I can always wire up something dangerous and specatacular as the situation needs.... I was sort of "born" into electronics so it is in me through and through... I seem to be real good at Tesla coils... Robotics was fun for a while but I have pretty much lost interest in it... But it did get me into little processors like the Basic Stamp which I used on the DRSSTC...

So we all have to go to where the interest leads us... Now that I am semi-retired, I seem to work on sleeping and being really lazy a lot

) But if I search google on myself, "Tesla coiling" is my claim to fame

)

So ten years from now you will probably still be hearing from "me"

))

Cheers,

Terry

Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Thu May 04 2006, 11:11PM

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I think this just means that there will be time for a newer person to 'shine' in the subject. Probably won't be me, but I really don't care if it is me, doesn't change anything. But its good to give someone else a chance for a while.

I was making coils left and right from '98-'01 when I cared more about the subject. They weren't much by comparison to the sparks I'm getting now since they relied on 12/30 NST's. I retired for a long time from building them for multiple reasons.
Recently I got involved in the CSULB 1KW Tesla Coil a couple years back now. So Just this last December I made my recent system for evaluating performance. So far the results have been pretty good. I am increasing Ls inductance because v = L di/dt, I have to see where that leads things.

Anyhow, I plan on getting real small in the future with sstc's and grow from there. Improve efficiency if I can, make self tuning systems With soft start! all in-chip. And I would like to do some audio modulated stuff and play some early Metallica through it, man would that be heavy or what!

I hope to get really good with simulation, performance indexing and optimization, such that I can answer questions and help out. My goal is to contribute proper, accurate and fesiable information to this forum.

HV Enthusiast

Thu May 04 2006, 11:17PM

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Building a computer or stereo may be cool, but i'm sure if you demonstrated it to any ole kid on the block, they would be like, "Big Deal."

However, show them a Tesla coil in action, and watch their jaws hit the floor!

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