Re: Laser guided Tesla Coil :>)

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Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Next time you do this experiment, try forming the wire into a "zig 
zag" shape.  I've done this and it looks similar to a real "comic 
book" type lightning bolt!!

Dr. Resonance
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Subject: RE: Laser guided Tesla Coil :>)


> Original poster: gary350@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >Original poster: "S&JY" <youngs@xxxxxxxxx>
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> >Except a long trailing wire would quickly detune the secondary and 
> spoil >the
> >fun.  I think a jet of Argon would be more interesting.
> >--Steve Y.
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> If you do not attach the wire to the top load it will not detune the 
> TC. Let the arcs jump several inches to a #24  wire.  The longer the 
> arc from the TC to the wire the higher the voltage is on the 
> wire.  You can get sparks anywhere along the wire even several 100 
> feet away.  It makes a great electric fence.  I had a teanage kid 
> that kept taking a short cut across my yard and climbing over my 
> fence.  He had the fence all smashed down I kept fixing the fence 
> the next day it was smashed again.  I told the kid stay off the 
> fence but he didn't.  After getting the you know what shocked out of 
> him on my booby trap he got the idea.
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> I have a large cap bank 3 caps in parallel 5K volt DC high energy 
> storage caps rated 18K amps each.  I run a #24 wire 100 ft to an 
> insulator and back to the cap bank.   I discharge the cap bank into 
> the wire loop and it vaporizes the wire.  I looks like a light 
> strike parallel to the ground and sounds like someone shot off a 
> high powered rifle, BOOM.  Losts of fun especially on the 4th of July.