Re: PIRANHA - New Top Load Configuration

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Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Finn,

Almost everything on this coil is new/modern!  Only the secondary, 
hidden primary, and hidden MOT are "conventional".  Even a coiler 
might not realize it is a Tesla coil at first glance!

I am just basically going to put the PIRANHA engine inside it.

http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/pictures/PIRANHA-001.JPG

It is sort of odd "designing" a coil where the "electrical stuff" is 
really not a concern at all...  I am just going to rebolt everything 
to a new base board and stick it in and forget it ;-)  All the design 
is "cosmetic".

I am not sure what the capacitance of the new terminal will be, but 
from the field plots it will be pretty close to a 8 x 24 toroid.  I 
have plenty of tuning range so not problem at all there.

The pictures where done with the ancient open source freebee 
PovRay.  It runs much faster on a 3GHz computer than a 12MHz 286 :o))

http://www.povray.org/

You probably want to get a GUI plugin for it like Moray:

http://www.stmuc.com/moray/

But that has a 30 day trial and then it is expensive.  But for a 
quick thing like this were I needed to get a good picture it is just 
fine ;-)  I could pretty much figure it out in an hour and use it:

http://drsstc.com/~piranha/PIRANHA/PIRANHA-2/newcoil-02.png

I had trouble finding a secondary coil and ground material...  I also 
have 'two' Suns ;-)

Some people are waaayyy too good at it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasses_800_edit.png

Cheers,

        Terry


At 10:52 PM 10/15/2006, you wrote:

> Terry,
>
> It should be cool indeed, like the SISG "gap" and kewl charging scheme is.
>
> What 3-D drawing package are you using?
>
> Cheers, Finn Hammer
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