You might be right Ed,
Were you the individual I spoke to on the phone about a Faraday cage for our Van De Graff in early April?
They did specifically tell me that they were going to buy everything and that none my my equipment stash was needed. They do also seem moderately serious about trying to do this project. They have a large exhibit on energy and the like that is beginning in June.
I think the answer to all this might be to simply assist in building a small table top coil that outputs ~1' sparks or something in that range then put it into a high mesh Faraday cage display case. Or just somehow convince them to buy a coil from people who know what they are doing, ie. Resonance Research.
I am still going to finishing the designing this one though (I like designing stuff), also I have been thinking about redoing my garage coil for some time (its getting old) and is probably really far off from anything close to max efficiency. =)
On that note, does anyone have a table outlining optimum resonant Frequency related to input power?
Thanks,
John "Jay" Howson IV