Re: Trial and error

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>



The Denver Zap show coil ran at 8 kVA.  Good guess.

Dr. Resonance


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> That was a great show !!  Thats the first time I heard of a Tesla Coil
> ,....Before then, the only way I knew to make sparks & arcs was with neon
> Xfrmers, or when I was real young , taking power transformers out of old
> black &white TVs and shocking the heck out of myself (ouch! ) . After your
> show, I was looking in the back of a Popular Electronics mag and saw an ad
> for the Lyndsays books, and it had that Tesla Coil/ Curtis book in it,
got
> it and started building//////what was the power input of the 'Zap' coil ,
> maybe 9-10 kva ???..............
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>  >From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>  >To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>  >Subject: Re: Trial and error
>  >Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:52:40 -0600
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>  >Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>  >Our company, Resonance Research Corp. built the coil and produced
>  >the Zap
>  >show for the Gates Planetarium in Denver.
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>  >Dr. Resonance
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>  > > Back in 1985, I think, I saw a show down at the Denver
>  >planitarium called
>  > > 'ZAP'. where they had a large T.Coil on stage, and people were
>  >lighting
>  > > florecent tubes in the front row,.....I dont know who built that
>  >coil, but
>  > > after that show, I got the spark bug !
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