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[TCML] Re: Tesla coil on mythbusters



It was interesting just how brightly the RF current would excite the sodium line in the salt water. I hadn't expected that.

When we first reviewed the original slo-mo footage, the producer expressed concern that it looked like FX had been added. GL


At 15:54 2009-03-22, you wrote:
>Myth Busters had a 20 ft high tesla coil with the tube type toroid the top
>load was big enough to stand up and walk around in.
>
>They took one of those huge power squirt guns and from inside the top load
>they were shooting water out in a stream to see if they could make a GIANT
>water stun gun and it did work, it shot quite a stream of fire until the
>water got to the target then about 2 to 3 feet from the target it turned
>back into an arc but it did work.
>
>One of the Myth Buster guys was inside the top load squirting the pump type
>water gun as the tesla was running. Now that looked pretty cool.
>
>Didn't say who's coil it was.
>
>Dr. Resonance

That's Greg Leyh's coil or NLL nowadays.

/Matt



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