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In article <kyZyiB1w164w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca>, magus@inqmind.bison.mb.ca
(James Copland) writes, in part:

>danube@dirac.physics.sunsyb.edu (Dan Koller*) writes:
> 
>>    The following works rather nicely, and can be made small.  I found an
>> old DEC monitor a year ago, stripped the CRT and threw the rest in the
>> junk box.  Recently it occurred to me the HV section probably could be
>> made to work.
>> It's sufficiently powerful to make a 3-4" high Jacob's Ladder, and if you
>> like PC board art, the extra components look kind of neat on this 
>> particular board.  If it runs in this fashion without burning up for more
>> than 20 min., 
	A wise precaution.  Some HV supplies are not designed for high load
	operation. And, as has been pointed out, such things are not quiet,
	RF wise.  The RF may well peak at a point set by the length of the
	electrodes.  Some of those frequencies are used by folk who do not take
	kindly to emi...

>Yes!  But its not "truly" a Tesla coil until you include the "rotary 
>spark gap" in the primary circuit.
	Well, a gap, anyway.  Tesla was quite happy with a variety of stationary
	gaps, until he got to truly high powers.  Likewise the early wireless
	folk...

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