10-31-2000

Halloween night, I had the coil set up in the garage, some of the first runs with my new 490mA transformer.  I was putting way too much coupling and power into the coil, but didn't find that out until later in the evening after the little trick-or-treaters started showing up.  So I kept hitting the power and as a result, the secondary coil was toast.  I would like to wind a new one now that I have some practice under my belt...hopefully, something in the 8" x 30" range.
 

2-18-2001

I have lost all of the "Corey's Tesla Coil" web page files in a (non-tesla coil related) hard drive failure.  I was very careful about backing the files up to a second physical drive, but when the main crashed I didn't even think twice about formatting the second drive, then the split second the drive light came on, I realized the mistake, but the files were gone.
 

3-15-2001

Moving into a new house and much bigger, too.  Now, I can actually have a Tesla Coil Room! ...Once I figure out where I packed the dang thing!
 

5-30-2001

I see the Tesla Coil Ring has been re-organized by alphabetical order, putting my page starting with the "(Another)" right at the top instead of 187th on the list...(they used to be arranged by age).  I chose "Another" because at the time, there seemed to be 2 or 3 people with the name "Corey" that had a page.  So now that I am close to first on the list, I should do a better job of updating the site.
 

5-31-2001

OK, getting ready to post the updates...in addition to eternal house work, yard work, real "pays the bills" work, the DIY welder project, and the 67' Chevelle I just couldn't refuse since it reminded me of my highschool days (see Corey's Bio)...this has been a busy week.  I am also considering moving the TC and sister sites to a new server...this change should be transparent to all users, but will make updates far easier from this end.