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Original poster: "Day, Michael" <Michael.Day-at-USPTO.GOV> 

Greetings All,

I will have to agree.  I have a BSEE and an MS in Physics, and I too
find Tesla coils fascinating, esp. the math and physics.  Kudos to
Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz for the solid foundation.  Still it is
the beauty of a brush discharge, and the amazing fact that people
like D.C. Cox can obtain 18 ft. sparks from a 9 ft. coil that holds
me spell bound.  How can this be, and why doesn't the coil always
short to the base or primary?  I learned long ago that RF is FM
(Friggin' Magic), and the importance of a good ground connection.

EM rocks.  Rock on.

Mike Day

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 >Original poster: "Bob (R.A.) Jones" <a1accounting-at-bellsouth-dot-net>

 >Its odd I have been involved in the design  electro-optical
 >systems that took three year to get off the board and had 100+ engineers
 >working on it and a Tesla coil still fascinates me.
 >
 >Bob