Re: Simple DC starter stuff

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Simple DC starter stuff
From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 12:33:00 -0400 (EDT)

Good book.
Barry

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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Simple DC starter stuff
|Date: Sunday, November 17, 1996 2:48PM
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|From couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-netSun Nov 17 11:58:10 1996
|Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 07:54:24 +0000
|From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: Simple DC starter stuff
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|At 06:19 AM 11/16/96 +0000, you wrote:
|>From gchristo-at-clt.mindspring-dot-comFri Nov 15 22:41:15 1996
|>Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:12:00 +0000
|>From: Chris Gardner <gchristo-at-clt.mindspring-dot-com>
|>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|>Subject: Simple DC starter stuff
|>
|>Im really new at this stuff, woefully ignorant of the technical level
|>that you guys pursue, but very curious......   (like george)
|>
|>Anyway, I built a coil in highschool that my grandfather helped me
|>design. The primary parts were as follows;
|>   6v lantern battery
|>   Plate glass and Aluminum foil Capacitor
|>   6v ignition coil (mabye 12)  Auto
|>   6v buzzer
|>   simple spark gap
|>
|> And the coil wrapped around 2.5 inch pvc,secondary wound of 30 guage
|>silver plated vinyl insulated wire, with the primary, 12 guage single
|>strand, wrapped right around the secondary on the same form. (from all
|>my reading and reasearch lately Ive begun to gather that was not optimal
|>(overcoupled?))
|>The buzzer was rigged to provide intermitant contact at the buzzing
|>frequency, (sort of like a rotary?) but I think that it was before the
|>ignition coil in the circuit, actually Im sure it was.
|>This would make more sense anyway.
|>
|>It was alot of fun, and the spark from the small ball bearing on the
|>top, approx 3/4 of an inch, was fairly harmless.
|>
|>All I have left of this is the orriginal coil. I would really like to
|>re-assemble this design, my grandfather passed away last year, he helped
|>me build this off the top of his head, and I think I am only now really
|>starting to appreciate how much he knew.
|>
|>Any help which you gentlemen could offer would be greatly appreciated.
|>
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|Chris -
|
|Your coil sounds similar to the 12 VDC coil I show in the Tesla Coil
|Construction Guide. Many of these coils have been made. They give about a
|one inch spark. They also have been used as a plasma globe supply using a 4
|inch clear spherical decorative lamp. The Guide shows other size coils and 
a
|lot of Tesla coil information.
|
|If you send me your snail mail address I will send you a flyer.
|
|Jack C.
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