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Re: Wireless ON/OFF for Tesla Coils- anyone done it?




From: 	Andrew Chin[SMTP:chinny-at-ozemail-dot-com.au]
Sent: 	Sunday, November 16, 1997 7:23 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Wireless ON/OFF for Tesla Coils- anyone done it?

Sorry about the quote.  Netscape didn't quote the important part.

Why not try the next best thing to wireless, and use a length of optic
fibre.  The reciever circuitry would be less complicated then an IR
receiver, and can be built with no ICs (as if that makes a difference).

Tesla List wrote:

> From:   Gary Pedro[SMTP:GaryKF6FPU-at-Sphinx-Egypt.Com]
> Sent:   Friday, November 14, 1997 11:10 PM
> To:     'Tesla List'
> Subject:        RE: Wireless ON/OFF for Tesla Coils- anyone done it?
>
> Julian,
>
> !
> ils are RF and RF likes to do weird things.
>
> P.S. if I had it to do over again I would not have tied the circuit
> ground to the outside of the box. And I would have used a nicad
> battery pack in the box with the circuit to power it so there for I
> would have no wires directly connected to the controler  just one
> optoisolator for the relay output mabe a 50Kv spread out to as far as
> posbile and let the box float so a spark wouldn't go for it as a
> ground. It may be posible and my origanl idea might have worked if my
> coil didn't get so many
>
> Hope this helps.