| Author | Message | ||
     Vegasbueller |
This is just amazing! http://www.wimp.com/electric/ | ||
| Court |
Fairly normal 345kv VGOAB (vertical Gang Operated Air Break) switch operation. Humidty likely made it spectacular, could be that the arcing horns were not installed. I have the website that has quite a few of those. I'll dig it out if you want. Fun stuff huh? I still recall when Dad and I were going to do a demonstation for the good folks of Kansas City Power and Light installing armor rods (gun shot repair to wire) on a live 345kV line. The night before, at dinner, Mom told us "now be careful and don't get burned" (my Dad had been out of work for over a year after falling into a 15kV line in Bonner Springs and then being blown off the top of a 40') to which I replied "Mom, if anything goes wrong, you don't get "burned" you are mercifully and instantly converted to carbon dust.  I'm still thinking I shoulda sold Amway. Court P.S. If you want to see one of the two I am building now, go to www.photobucket.com, enter user "Astoria500MW" and pswd "George". The modules we are setting this week weigh just shy (487,000#) of half a million pounds each. Today I am helping weave a 27,000# GTU (generator terminal unit) down through building steel into position. Yikes. Thanks for the reminder to be careful! | ||
| Dhutty |
"It's alive! It's ALIVE!!!" | ||
| Ingemar |
Hey! Court actually told a story instead of giving the "remind me to tell you about that story some time .." line.  | ||
| Cyclone8u |
I don't know why but this stuff really trips my trigger... (but then again I once spent a whole night with bloodshot eyes downloading videos of nuclear "events" from the DOE's website). Here's a link http://205.243.100.155/frames/longarc.htm to some more stuff including some in depth descriptions of what's going on. Court, you da' man for working with this stuff... -John | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Awesome website John! Other that knowing Court worked with this stuff, I also have that inner "mad scientist" that made me post the link that I did. I have been working on parts and pieces of a large Tesla coil for quite a while now. Wasn't it Tesla that blew down a portion of forest with one of his generators? Nick BTW: Court, for sure post the links or pics that you have. Very intersting! | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
 Nikola Tesla is my hero. He must be the most creative genius up to this time. To wit: "Nikola Tesla was a pioneer in a staggering number of fields; AC power was only one of them. He has also done significant research and development in a wide variety of other disciplines, and his body of patents ranges through such diverse fields as robotics, wireless communications, turbines, fluid dynamics, radar, therapeutic equipment, VTOL aircraft, artificial lighting, X-rays, and computer systems. Though history books continue to give Guglielmo Marconi credit for the invention of radio, Tesla's lectures on wireless broadcasting precede Marconi's radio patents by some three years. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the matter in Tesla's favor, and struck down Marconi's patent claim, in 1943. The developers of integrated circuits for modern computers have been surprised to discover that some of the basic logic gates they desired to implement and patent on silicon had already been implemented and patented, by Tesla, in 1903, using AC-based components. Many of Tesla's experiments, such as his artificial creation of ball lightning, still baffle scientists today. It still remains to be seen what other scientific advances were anticipated by Tesla over a century ago." Maybe he's an alien!!!  In answer to the "forest" question above:  Using the coil, Tesla asked himself: If the Earth can conduct electricity, and the electricity vibrates around the world in waves through the planet, just how much electricity can the Earth hold? A reasonable question! He could think of no better way to answer that question than by dumping as much electricity as he could generate into the ground, just to see what would happen. The area around his experiment became electrified, but not enough to kill anyone, and there were some very impressive bolts of man-made lightning which stopped when he blew up the town's generator and caused a blackout over several miles. There might have been one other small side effect. At almost exactly the same time that this experiment was taking place, a mysterious explosion rocked a remote section of Siberia, to the tune of about a 15-megaton blast (40 years before the first Atomic Bomb test). The explosion has never been satisfactorily explained, although it is commonly dismissed as a meteor or comet impact (a claim which doesn't quite add up with the measured damage on the scene). Interestingly, Tesla had claimed he was trying to use to wave to send a communication to an Arctic expedition that can supposedly be located along a straight line path between Tesla's lab and the site of the explosion.  HBJ "I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the Buell rider as he sees some creation of the throttle hand unfolding to success...the wheelie! Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything." --Nikola S3-T(esla) | ||
| Vegasbueller |
Awesome! That was the article I had been looking for. I read it years ago, and could never find it again. The guy was an insane genius. Thanks! Nick | ||
| Cyclone8u |
I actually was always intrigued by the theory that the explosion in Siberia was cause by a very small amount of anti-matter penatrating our atmosphere. Powerful stuff indeed. Here's a link to a guy who built a 1.5 Megavolt Tesla: http://www.qsl.net/ke5fx/tesla.html Something about playing around with a 15 KV pole transformer in my basement just sends a shiver down my spine. -John | ||
| Vegasbueller |
INteresting theory indeed. I would like to think that if Nikola had actually caused that explosion that other people have continued those experiements. Here is a link to some more insane people: http://www.lod.org/index.html |
