Lighting bulbs experimentation and pics!

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <CoolCorals-at-aol-dot-com>

Hello,
      I am a newbie coiler, just recently got my first TC running.  I have 
had earlier postings on help with tuning and also had asked questions about 
lighting bulbs with TC's.
      Quickly, my coil is run on a 6/30 neon, 3 series static gap (open as 
wide as ballast will fire) 7 turn solenoidal 6ga primary, 2.3"x22.3" 
secondary and a 4x13" toroid.  I have not got this totally where I am happy 
with the tuning.  I am going to re make my primary with 1/4" tubing inverse 
cone at 30*.  Anyway, I can pull 9" sparks to ground and that's it.  My 
resonant frequency is about 525khz.

Here's some pics of bulbs I have lit.  Oh, and a 40 watt fluorescent tube 
will light up almost exactly 6' around the coil.

1.  Here's a neat pic from tuning.  There's a copper pipe, a steel ball and 
a weird jello mold on top.  This just looked kinda wild.
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/9.jpg
2.  Here's a cool pic of a candle.  The sparks come straight out of the top 
of the flame!
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/10.jpg
3.  Here's a couple of pics using and old "medical quack UV bulb" from 
those old electrotherapy kits.  The bulb is most straight with one 
electrode at the top.
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/11.jpg
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/12.jpg
4.  Here's a couple of pics showing a 175watt Metal Halide bulb!!!!!!!  The 
first pic is just on the top, and the second with a ring wire above.
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/14.jpg
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/15.jpg
5.  Here's a nice pic of a plasma ball placed on top.  I had an old one 
where the supply was bad but the bulb was good, so "on the TC it goes".
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/20.jpg
6.   Here's another neat pic of an old neon bulb.  This bulb is from the 
50's and was meant to run on standard AC.  Looks similar here, just a lot 
brighter!
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/22.jpg
7.   Finally, here's my personal favorite.  This is an incandescent bulb 
10watt.  There is 2 pics, one again just on top and the other with a ring 
above.
      You can see that the gas has been excited to the point of luminosity 
and the stem is glowing blue!!  This is a working bulb, and there IS a 
filament in there, it doesn't even get warm!?
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/23.jpg
      http://members.aol-dot-com/coolcorals/24.jpg

Thanks, Will have some more pics soon!  Does anyone else have some pics 
like these?  What do you guys think?

Thanks, Brad K.  Newbie