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Re: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show



Original poster: "Brian" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Nice pix! the coil in the middle-the primary is awfuly close to the floor?
might be a problem. see you all next year,brian f.
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From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 10:53 PM
Subject: Terry and Jerry's Tesla Show


> Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi All, > > Well, we all survived just fine ;-)) > > Here is the only "official" picture ;-)) > > http://hot-streamer.com/temp/Terry%2BJerryDemo.JPG > > To the left is Gerry's wonderful coil that really worked well!! My little > coil in the middle is running very poorly!! I need to give it a service to > see what is wrong with it... My E-bay toob coil to the right continues to > work very well with it's brand new (no burning wood now) grid resistors. > > About 120 people showed up and they were all impressed ;-)) We had two > video cameras there with pro wireless mics and all... They wanted to put > it on local access TV and we pinged them to get us the videos too. I think > we can get it on some kind of DIVX format soon so you can all see too. > > Gerry put brand new PFC caps on his coil so it only drew like 9 to 12 amps > off the AC of this old school house. > > The Kill-A-Watt meter did not like being on the end of an extension cord at > all!! I think the cord's inductance allowed enough RF to reach the meter > to mess it all up. We shielded the cord really well and then it was > fine. But I think those meters like to be right at the wall > outlet. Gerry's coil was running about 0.93 to 0.94 PF. > > I had not hauled around a few hundred pounds of Tesla coil stuff in a long > time... I hope the new DRSSTC will fix that side of these demos ;-)))) > > Cheer's > > Terry > > >