The quickening
Completed toroid
Gap with only one of it's two rotors fitted. Fiber optic tach also not yet installed.
Grain oriented 3% silicon .014" thick steel laminations
Limiting reactor E core ready for some wire.
About 63 mills of gap across all three legs.
Didn't saturate even at continuous 26kva. Steel meant to handle 1.8 Tesla
First current and voltage tests
Divider for voltage testing measures 26.8 kvdc
Completely home built 53kv 5 amp 3 phase full wave bridge
Inside the ark of the covenant
Gap after two nights of continuous 80 kva. I'll probably switch to G7 or Aluminum
No tungsten. All 100% oxygen free copper. Much better electrical and thermal conductivity..and inexpensive
RF filter started to get a little hot on the tank side.
Winding the 11' test coil # 2 with 22 AWG
That's me with test coil #2
This coil had measured 16' arc hits to the side of the house running at 20kva AC
This coil was 7' tall and served as a test bed for a variety of components over the course of a couple years.
This was the coil in the LA Times Magazine article.