Re: heater on toroid

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• Subject: Re: heater on toroid
• From: "Bryan L. Kaufman MD, MS" <bryan-at-apexrad-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:31:16 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Actually what conducted was neither heat nor flame, it was the ions 
generated from the decomposition of the alcohol due to the heat. Flame is a
chemical reaction of the redox variety, it commonly produces ionic (and
therefore conductive) intermediates on it's way to the most stable state.


> Original Poster: "me" <weaver77-at-home-dot-com>
>
> You could build a donut shaped steel ring and put it in a furnace and heat
> it to
>
> 1800 degrees F.  Then before it has time to cool place the red hot ring
on top
> of your TC and turn it on. This may tell you what you want to know without
> using a battery or power supply to heat the metal Red Hot.
>
> I am not sure how this compaires to an experement that I once did.  I placed
> a pie pan on top of my TC.  I put 1/4 cup of alcohol in the pie pan and
ignited
> it and turned on the TC.  The 3" blue alcohol flames conducted the sparks
into
> the air.  The results was a round blue ball of 1000's of  micro small sparks
> that
> looked  like a 24" diameter ball of burning steel wool on tip of the
secondary
> coil.  The flame and heat conducted the sparks, so the red hot glowing metal
> ring might do the same thing.
>
> Gary Weaver
>
>

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