Re: High midnight at the Texas corral

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Original poster: "Bert Pool by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.tx-at-prodigy-dot-net>


At 06:22 PM 4/4/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Stephen Conner by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <steve-at-scopeboy-dot-com>
>
>At 12:30 04/04/03 -0700, you wrote:
>
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>>But would it not be more interesting if you would post the complete
>>specs of your magnifier to see, if your results are reproduceable
>>elsewhere?


>I second that, and let's see some photographs of the 12 foot sparks too! 
>Anyway, like another poster said, it's easy to get big sparks out a small 
>tank cap, you just charge it to a stupidly high voltage, very fast. FWIW, 
>I get 30" with a 0.0094uF cap (at 20kV and 500bps rep rate) on my ordinary 
>2-coil system. It uses a tiny RSG spinning at 15000 rpm. I guess I could 
>convert it into a maggie and see if the sparks got bigger...
>
>Steve C.

I posted a link to my web site with my original post.
Bert