Re: Tesla Coil Power Factor

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Power Factor
From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:31:54 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com


  Terry -

  Many thanks for the excellent waveform photos. I was amazed to see these
photos on my computer in such a short time. I will study them and get back
to you. In photos 02 and 06 the bottom traces (Vs) do not ring down like
the 03 trace. What were the differences in the output sparks? Was the power
factor .588 for photos 02 and 03?  

  John Couture

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At 11:53 AM 9/20/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>
>
>Hi John,
>
>	I have posted 6 more pictures at:
>
>www.peakpeak-dot-com/~terryf/tesla/misc/
>
>They are john01.jpg to john06.jpg.  I refer to them below.
>
>At 10:15 PM 9/19/98, you wrote:
>>
>>  Terry -
>>
>>  I believe your results with the power factor tests of your coil are an
>>excellent example of how the PF test can show how well your coil is
>>performing. The higher the PF the better the coil is working. A perfect
>>performance would be close to 100% PF. At this stage there would be very
>>little reactive power returning to the source (electric utility co).
>>

>	Terry Fritz
>
>>
>>  Comments welcomed.
>>
>>  John Couture
>>
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