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RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for




From: 	atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com[SMTP:atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 17, 1997 8:53 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for

Yes, I have built several Tesla Coils in the past. They probably weren't
optimally tuned but I did achieve a 5" or 6" discharge and I must say folks
around here did get a kick out of the spectacle. I most recently completed a
conversion of a drum type pen plotter to a CNC coil winder. The tesla coils
wond with the coil winder will be components to a system that will hopefully
be a successful marketable product (ya, right).

OK, I'll try one more time. Everything I've read about Tesla's Wardencliffe
power transmission system indicates that there was supposed to be a ball of
humming mist-like plasma at top of the tower, not a big crackly arc. If this
is so, why isn't anyone trying to achieve this mist-like (ion acoustic
resonant?) discharge at the top of their Tesla Coils?



At 06:44 PM 9/16/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, September 16, 1997 3:08 PM
>To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: 	Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>
>Hi all,
>         A further comment harking back to previous post....
> 
>> From:   DamDeName-at-aol-dot-com[SMTP:DamDeName-at-aol-dot-com]
>> Sent:   Tuesday, September 16, 1997 5:25 AM
>> To:     tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>> Subject:    Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>> 
>> In a message dated 97-09-16 09:06:59 EDT, you write:
>> 
>>  
>>  From:  Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
>>  Sent:  Monday, September 15, 1997 7:53 PM
>>  To:    tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>  Subject:   Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>>  
>>  RE:
>>   
>>  > From:   atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com[SMTP:atech-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
>>  > Sent:   Monday, September 15, 1997 6:12 AM
>>  > To:     Tesla List
>>  > Subject:    Re: RE- Re: what's a tesla coil good for
>>  > 
>>  > To even speculate the true and ultimate purposes Tesla had in mind of his
>>  > inventions is taboo on this forum. I've concluded that this forum is for
>>  > electronic fireworks hobbyists with competitions for ever greater length
>> of
>>  > sparks.
>>  
>>  At least we're doing *real* research and making *real* things and 
>>  learning *real* things and getting *real* results not to mention 
>>  *real* measurements. I am quite happy to die knowing I have actually 
>>  *done* something.
>>  
>>  Malcolm 
>>  <snip>
>>  
>>  hi all-------- i felt i might contribute  here ---- 
>> 
>>      this group is probably (hopefully)   mostly concerned
>> in the focused study of Tesla's power processing technology .---- (the
>> general
>> view is covered under his u.s. patents ) --- 100 + of'em 
>> 
>>    This area ----- to be properly studied, must have ---  theory & lab
>> ---------this is a "hands on activity "  --------
>> --------------------------     Generating a great many areas of study ------
>> 
>>      I feel the study of one of Dr. Tesla's ultimate purpose (having to do
>> with
>> global transmission of free energy etc.) -- is best served by 
>> "studying sparks & their electro-mechanical  sources"
>> 
>>      We know that a great scientist's work was "interrupted" -------
>> when he ran out of "energy" (different subject ) -----:>)
>> 
>>      Bearing in mind that his inventions --studied in chronological order --
>> were , in a sense, his  "lab assignments " for past , present & future 
>> study/theory ------- the purpose of which ---is-----" to gain on his personal
>> goal of understanding energy " ---- maybe -------- :>)
>>        
>>     all that aside ------
>> 
>>       I have yet to see any question relating to teslas work turned away 
>> on this forum ----& think that the only way to understand  is to study ---
>> 
>>   to study --- you need teachers ---- special teachers ---- teachers who
>> recognize student's stumbling blocks ----- one of which is---- 
>> ( when you fail to understand why a student doesn't
>> understand something --- you must become a student ----
>> --- or fail as a teacher -------- )---- nuff'
>>  
>>     Sandy
>> ps. -- have you built a coil ? 
>
>Somebody mentioned in passing a few days ago that Tesla was obtaining 
>sparks from out of tune coils as a byproduct of his power 
>transmission research. Anybody who has ever built a coil _knows_ you 
>*do not* get sparks from out of tune coils.
>
>Malcolm
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