Re: Why we build these things Was: Re: Tesla Coil Dream

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Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>


I actually got reminded tonight of the power of
real lightning: a tornado carrying thunderstorm
cell passed through Madison, WI just a few hours
ago.

I spent most of the last few hours sitting on
the porch watching beautiful cloud-to-cloud
streamers light up the night like it was day.
Also the occassional blinding power arc to the
ground, all to the tune of the local air raid
siren :) The most powerful lightning I've
ever seen.

I had thoughts of pulling out one of my older
coils and running it in the driveway to see if
I could tempt one of the REAL streamers to it :)

Then I decided that living is better...

Supposing one could protect a coil from the
affects of pouring rain and wind, wouldn't the
large ion field around the toroid be a nice target
for lightning?









--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
 > <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 > <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
 >
 >  > But for me now it's the tinkering. And putting in
 > SO much time and money
 >  > into something that has no "practical" everyday
 > use what-so-ever. I get,
 >  > "Well? What's it for?" I've been telling them it
 > keeps the pigeons off the
 >  > porch. :)
 >
 > Exactly.  If I get one more person asking me, "Whats
 > it good for?" or "Is
 > that all it does?" or "Does it do anything useful",
 > i'll probably shove them
 > right into my primary circuit.  "Whats it good for?"
 >   HOW ABOUT COOKING
 > FLESH!
 >
 > The Captain
 >
 >


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