quick outdoor run of eye searing goodness
Added 2023-01-14 17:25:57 +0000 UTChere's a quick clip showing the monster tube coil running outside. those are some of the brightest arcs you'll ever see from a tesla coil :)
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Jeeeeeeeeez
Casi
2024-05-19 23:59:29 +0000 UTCThis is a great angle with you peeking in the corner with that devlish smile.
Sean Daggett
2023-01-15 00:42:42 +0000 UTCCan you estimate the power dissipation associated with your arcs? Edit: I agree your arcs are whiter & brighter. Lower voltage would suggest more resistive heating, but somehow I guess that's not much of a factor, since you get low resistence as soon as the air ionizes (right?).
Carl Lumma
2023-01-14 22:20:39 +0000 UTCThat's a spark gap coil that has about 3x higher average power draw than my coil here. It's pulsed in nature with very high peak power. Surprisingly, it looks like my coil has higher current output than that one, both in peak and average. I would bet my coil has brighter arcs to ground due to this, as well as the fact that my coil is running close to CW (50% duty cycle at 60Hz). Note how the arcs from my coil are white, driven mainly by thermal emission. This is rare from a tesla coil. In fact, you can see left over thermal plasmas after an arc extinguishes, further attesting to the large amount of hot plasma being produced. Another probable factor for bright arcs is that my coil has substantially lower output voltage. You'd think this would hinder brightness, but in reality, I think it promotes more resistance heating of the arc as opposed to "wasting" energy on further ionization.
styropyro
2023-01-14 21:45:47 +0000 UTCWhat do you mean by hot? Isn't it watts that matter?
Carl Lumma
2023-01-14 21:18:08 +0000 UTCIt's a LOT hotter than the ones Dr. Megavolt had the last time I saw him perform.
James Nelson
2023-01-14 21:16:21 +0000 UTCHow does this coil compare to the one made by Dr Megavolt? https://drmegavolt.com/coils/ https://drmegavolt.com/tech/
Carl Lumma
2023-01-14 18:33:05 +0000 UTC
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