yea, that's a tough one. keep your integrity vs. a big mess of expensive pulse caps.
On February 22, 2018 8:36:48 PM PST, Steve White <steve.white1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I suffered through the series just to see the actual tesla coil stuff
>which was perhaps about 5 minutes of each show. Most of this program
>was the typical tesla conspiracy theory nonsense which you could
>guessed from the title of the series. It was amusing to watch because
>the "investigators" would find some scrap of paper that tesla drew that
>would show something completely normal to all of us like a big tesla
>coil tower and they would act like they just discovered the Rosetta
>Stone. In one show they found a picture of grounding methods and acted
>like it was the Holy Grail. Then they would speculate endlessly about
>conspiracies based on almost nothing. It was all quite a bit of
>nonsense.
>
>The parts that were worth watching (5 minutes per program) was an
>actual tesla coil builder attempting to build what they were calling
>the "Death Ray". Basically, what the coiler built was a large tesla
>coil combined with a capacitor discharge system. He had a bank of very
>large pulse capacitors which he would charge and then discharge through
>a streamer plasma path that the tesla coil had established to a
>grounded target. The streamer would then strike the grounded object and
>destroy it. At least this is what it looked like to me. Of coarse this
>would never work in practice for many reasons: you can't steer the
>streamer, the flying target isn't grounded, a huge bank of pulse
>capacitors would be required to destroy an actual aircraft, limited
>range, and probably many more reasons. It was impressive though that
>the coiler figured out a way to discharge thousands of joules from a
>capacitor bank through a streamer generated by a tesla coil to a
>grounded target.
>
>I was wondering throughout the series if the tesla coil builder was a
>member of TCML. He probably is but I haven't been following TCML enough
>recently to know all of the major names. Unfortunately I can't remember
>his name. I have a feeling he was holding back the laughter every time
>the 2 overheated "investigators" engaged him in conversations about
>Tesla conspiracy theories and such. He was probably thinking "the
>Science Channel is paying me to build this thing and I get to keep all
>of the cool equipment after it is all over so I will play along with
>these jokers". I must confess that I missed the final episode where
>they were supposed to demonstrate the "Death Ray". I will have to catch
>the re-run.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Greg Leyh" <lod@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:20:07 PM
>Subject: [TCML] Death Ray?
>
>Hi All,
>
>Recently there was some program either on the Science or History
>Channel
>where they tried to replicate Tesla's 'Death Ray.' I don't have cable
>so I haven't seen it, but have seen a few still images. It kinda looks
>
>like a mini-Electrum with a curly breakout point.
>
>Anyone know the deal? What did they actually build?
>
>Cheers,
>Greg
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