Tesla Coil Cambridge Teslathon 2009 Pole Pig 8 inch tesla

Cambridge Teslathon 2009 Pig powered 8 inch coil 12Kv / 0.5 amp 6kva through static gap. Spark gap is a 2 gap multi using a total gap distance of 5mm (2 X 2.5 mm) consisting of 0.5 inch Tu electrodes. Fan cooled.
Gap kindly loaned by Phillip Strauss

More photos at http://www.hvtesla.com

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• Cambridge Teslathon 2010
• tesla
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• Nikola tesla
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• hot streamers
• lightning
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• 200bps
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• teslathon

[drdreads1]

nice job, do you have any footage of your coil in action with the 'over engineered' static sucker gap that is on the hvtesla website? it sure looks the part so i have replicated the design into a smaller version of it with 22mm brass and copper plumbing suplies and 8mm x 100mm solid copper electrodes.

[follytowers]

@drdreads1

This video was shot in the afternoon using Phillip Strauss' borrowed gap (0.5 inch tungsten rods + blower), but I used my static gap in the morning with similar performance. My static never needed cleaning with the solid copper rods though, but the borrowed gap that uses Tungsten rods DID. The pure Tungsten stays cleaner than the thoriated welding rods I think. These rods are normally used in gas tungsten arc welding

(GTAW)

[follytowers]

I went the a 10 inch sync 200 with a phase controller shortly afterwards

[Teslalabor]

You should use a 200BPS sync-rotary with the pig!

[stevemcd30]

Excellent recovery from your neighbor, good job on the rebuild. Glad to read your neighbor was served justice accordingly.

[skatermanTC]

Its a Monster!! very nice