Re: straight core transformers and chokes

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Original poster: Mike <megavolts61-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

A modern ignition coil or two for a car will easily outperform such a
device now-a-days...  Really not a Tesla coil at all, but rather a high
voltage induction coil.
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What Terry said....haha....probably want to use about 40g magnet wire for 
this if you are a glutton for punishment.  I read that book and decided car 
coils are the way to go.

It also described the construction of a high voltage rectifier by filling a 
fish tank with battery acid and sinking an array of plates made of iron and 
aluminum,  similarly to a
car battery.

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hmm...it would seem this would be very limited in efficiency.  I could see 
it as a high current rectifier, but being all in one tank...I fail to see 
how it could be very high voltage.

Mike