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Jacobs Ladder powered by Tesla Coil
Posted by Peter M. Caya on 3/10/2004, 8:39 pm
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Re: Jacobs Ladder powered by Tesla Coil
Posted by Bert Hickman on 3/11/2004, 8:41 pm, in reply to "Jacobs Ladder powered by Tesla Coil" The problem is that the small hand-held Tesla coil is actually generating a series of individual sparks instead of a continuous current (such as you would get from a high voltage neon sign transformer). It takes voltage to initially break down (ionize) the air and create sparks - that's apparently working OK. However, it takes a supply of continuing current to convert a spark into a hot arc. And, it takes a continuing current to heat the air so that the arc will rise. Hope this helped! -- Bert --
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