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Oddball Oudin Coil
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: Oddball Oudin Coil
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:33:47 -0600
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From: Edward V. Phillips [SMTP:ed@alumni.caltech.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 16, 1998 11:46 AM
To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: Oddball Oudin Coil
"That device is an induction coil (mechanically operated
fly-back circuit), not a Tesla coil."
Those things have been called Tesla Coils for many, many
years. In the form with which I am familiar they are used for
testing for (or sometimes starting) leaks in vacuum systems. I
have one which appears to have been made around 1918. Puts
out about a 3/4" spark and works fine on vacuum systems, as
it's supposed to.
Don't know where the apellation Tesla Coil came for\
in regard to these........
Ed