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Re: Hand cranked Tesla Coil?



Original poster: Shaun Epp <scepp@xxxxxxx>

You won't get that much power from a hand crank unit. Look into Meggers and insulation testers, they have a hand crank and convert that power into 500 volts or 1Kv at low currents; ~ 1mA

Shaun Epp


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Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: Hand cranked Tesla Coil?


Original poster: "M G" <gt4awd@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi again, I would like to know if anyone on the list has built a "human" powered Tesla Coil. Be it a hand crank, peddle powered generator, etc... For some reason this seems to be of interest to me lately, and I can't get it off my mind. Eventually I would like to build my own little AC generator. Is this a highly complicated task or not so complicated? Be it either of those I would still like to do this eventually. I had ran into a website showing the creation of a wind mill AC generator, but lost the URL since then. It did not seem to be all that complicated, although some special fabrication of metal seemed to be needed. The mill would create over 30 amps at 120volts with a wind speed of 20mph. I would assume that a peddle powered generator (old bike) could be made to move at least 10amps at 120vo! lts. A hand crank maybe being able to move about 5 amps at 120volts.

Thanks,
Matt G.

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