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In article <kyZyiB1w164w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> magus@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (James Copland) writes:
>Yes!  But its not "truly" a Tesla coil until you include the "rotary 
>spark gap" in the primary circuit.  I have used B/W tv high voltage 
>sections and gotten 7 - 18 KV and color ones ranged for me from 20 - 
>48Kv.  Nominal is B/W 15KV and color 40KV so you can see most of them are 
>lower than the nominal.  They make great Jacobs ladders and other Tesla 
>type toys.  I like the "Plasma Ball" the best, as you can safely interact 
>with the lightning.  Now if I could only use some electronics to build 
>the equivalent "solid state"  spark gap!

Lots of TV circuits make use of tripler circuits to boost the EHT.
This makes the EHT transformer cheaper, the insulation doesn't have to
be as good, and it uses less copper wire.

As to "Plasma Balls", do you know how to build one ?
I always assumed it has a strange mixtures of gasses at low pressure ...
If it is possible to build such a toy, I'm interested ...

Philip