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Re: 1000 foot sparks?

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From rodney-at-johnxt7.anu.edu.auWed Jun 12 21:06:24 1996
> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:27:19 +1000 (EST)
> From: Rodney Davies <rodney-at-johnxt7.anu.edu.au>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: 1000 foot sparks?
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >  The longest arcs claimed by a modern builder are 75 feet!  This was made
> > to my face by the builder himself and I have numerous other witnesses.
> > The name of the builder shall remain anonimous.  Naturally, when pressed
> > for images of this amazing coilin action, we were told that none existed.
> >  I find it amazing that with such a system, the builder was of such a
> > dilatory nature that he never bothered with pictures of videos to
> > substantiate his claims.  Amazingly, there were no pictures of even the
> > dead, cold, coil for view either. Enough said here!
> 
> What about Richard Golka's Magnifier? Supposed to have reached 105 feet?
> The photo is at
> ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/electrical/tesla/pictures/misc/tesla50.jpg
> + .doc
> 
> A very impressive photo I might add too!
> 
> But I guess that's not a traditional 'Tesla Coil' (primary-secondary)
> setup....can we classify the magnifier in this 'long arc' phenomena?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Rod
> 
> -- "Who are the Federal Communications Commission and why do they
>     want my Tesla Coil?"
> 
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Rod,

Golka, himself, has never made such a claim. (He never attained 50' of 
arc) Next, he was not an amateur, he did this to get money. (government 
grant).

His power level was on the order of 200,000 watts too!

I have talked with Golka personally, plus a number folks who were with 
Golka at Wendover and in Colorado period as well.  None ever saw straight 
line arcs over 30-40 feet!  I have video tapes and stills of the Golka 
magnifier system in full tilt operation taken by a number of scources (TV 
crews, visiting coilers, a Boeing aircraft engineer, etc.  From my 
measurements and calculations based on video still frames and photos in 
my possesion, I find no spark over 35' from the Golka system.

Who put the value of the spark length accompanying the Golka photos?

Richard Hull, TCBOR