Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!esosun!net1!sdcsvax!brian From: brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Tesla Coils Message-ID: <2293@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 12:46:00 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2293 Posted: Thu Dec 11 12:46:00 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Dec-86 02:41:28 EST Reply-To: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) Organization: UCSD wombat breeding society Lines: 22 Back about 1963, Popular Electronics magazine had some really nice Tesla coils in a pair of companion articles called "Big TC" and "Little TC". We built them in high school electric shop, using a lathe to wind the coil on Big TC. They worked really GREAT! Maybe your library has back issues (microfilm, perhaps)? Especially good was connecting the top of the Big TC coil to the doorknob of the classroom door - so that anybody attempting to come in drew a big arc to his fingers. Worked especially well with the principal. Yes, I'm still alive. Brian Kantor UC San Diego decvax\ brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ihnp4 >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc "There is more harmony in films than in life." - Francois Truffaut