The Tesla Coil

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Buck Parrish said:
This is new to me. Has any body else seen it in person?

I heard it can make a dead flourescent tube burn bright, from 20 feet.

Is this how the E-Bomb works?

Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY-AS13fl30
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Yeah, done that (on a small scale) - still got one in my basement though I haven't fired it up in years. Me and my buddies built it in grad school for the $30 we had to shell out for the neon transformer, magnet wire, and 6" PVC. The rest was salvage, including the primary (a bush beer box squished to be round with stranded #4 wrapped around it), the spark gap (tin can with ends cut off, corked with wood with nails in each end), and a bunch of high voltage caps (pasta sauce bottles with aluminum foil glued to the inside and outside). Used it for a demo in an "EE101" class. We lit up "blown" florescent bulbs held in the hand through a chain of six people - pretty cool. Though it took some guts to be the one at the end of the chain drawing the spark!
 
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That's pretty cool.
Would this mean you can create more energy from less?
Such as, would this be similar to miles of runs of utilities power in the farming areas? For stepping up power, from the same source.

Can you step up from 3000 volts to 12000 and use the same amount of energy as the 3000 volts?
Just wondering, may be I'm on the wrong track.
 
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