Re: Cheesehead III/ Present your work!

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Original poster: "Dr. John W. Gudenas" <comsciprof-at-ameritech-dot-net> 


On Sep 5, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Tesla list wrote:
Everybody
David is certainly on target. Congratulations Steve for a great 
demonstration of your work and thanks to all who contributed to a fun day.
The Society for Amateur Scientists is holding its third annual Citizen 
Science Conference this January in Las Vegas. All you folks doing the solid 
state work should consider presenting a paper at the conference. If you 
can't attend you should consider the Poster Session.  ( Bert, a 
presentation on Lichtenberg figures would be quite welcome) SAS doesn't 
discriminate on academic credentials, however, we do expect real science 
and technology. Papers and posters are reviewed. I know many of you belong 
to SAS and those who don't visit    www.SAS-dot-org  and find out what it is about.
Bert Hickman and I were discussing an observation that he made and I concur 
with. It seems that streamer formation appears to differ between class type 
(spark gap, vacuum tube, solid state) of coils. It is certainly obvious 
with tube coils, but more subtle with the solid state coils. Something to 
think about.

John W. Gudenas, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science, Aurora University
Board of Directors, SciTech Museum, Aurora IL
Executive Board, Society for Amateur Scientists
WWW.SAS-dot-org

>Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>
>Hi All,
>
>Thank you Dr.R for the great time.
>
>We had coils present by David Weiss, Steve Ward, Terry Blake, Chris 
>Roberts, and Jared Dwarshuis.  Steve's monster SSTC won the biggest 
>streamer award and I think he might have set a new strike record last 
>night.  Some of those streamers looked like they might have gone 15', THEY 
>WERE HUGE!  Terry's SSCT was the next biggest sparker until something gave 
>way.  Chris Roberts' little 2" table top was an excellent performer for 
>it's size.  Jared and Larry gave us a demonstration of coil configurations 
>that are possible and work. And then there was my new 6" that was fresh 
>out of the shop and untunned, which had SRSG problems and was able to get 
>about 1' of spark.  Thanks again coilers for the hard work that brought us 
>all a lot of fun!
>
>David E Weiss
>
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