I have hooked up a long string of fluoro (fluororescent) tubes to my Tesla coil. Can you see 3 of me in the photo?
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I initially connected 6 fluoro tubes to a rope between two trees 20 feet in the air. I grounded one end and they ran well above the TC with no direct connection. So how many can I do?
6 Fluoro tubes with no connection to the TC.
I then hooked up a string of a dozen fluoro tubes to my TC. Worked fine but I wonder how much longer is possible? I have about 100 fluoro tubes (the hospital saved their dead tubes for me) and a long driveway.
I have now hooked up 30 fluoro tubes in a 120 ft string and they work fine.
A rearrangement of the string using about 19 of the tubes. Sort of dwarfs me and the TC. Note the rounding of the picture at the corners with the limit of my wide angle lens. I had separate lead in wires from each side of the fluoro string to a block of wood that the spark in the lower photo is striking.
Here is a direct strike to the glass envelope of a fluoro which punctures it and over the next minute or so it stops working as air enters the tiny hole. The next tube up looks like it was also punctured.
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Photo Date: 2009