Re: Tesla Coil Dream

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 5/9/03 7:07:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>giant sword-like streamers were shooting from the toroid.
>But they were completely
>silent.  All I could think of was, "Man, wait till the group heres this. You
>really CAN have a tesla coil thats extremely
>quiet."  I was in the middle of the demonstration, but the whole time i
>couldn't wait to email the list and let them know of my awesome discovery.
>
>Anyways, upon waking up, I did feel disapointed that it was only a dream,
>but thought I'd share this bizarre tale anyway.
>
>The Captain


Hi Captain,

You could ahcieve this feat, but only if you ran it in a rarefied
atmosphere (like at 10 miles or more in altitude). This would keep
the neighbors happy though, wouldn't it?  :^)

David Rieben