Original poster: dest <dest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> it has produced sparks 4.3 times the length of its secondary.
pshaw - at a miserable power level? must be lokin not so cool and not
so hard to do like this one:
"[...]
Nemesis was a classic example. With a 110uh 13 turn 4 foot diameter
primary and a .088 capacitor and with about 10kVA, we hit the 15-16 foot
mark with white hot bolts on occassion from a 46" secondary winding of
.130 henry. Lotsa' folks from 1990 to 1994 witnessed Nemesis in person at
our Telsathons.
4.174, and you were only sixteen, boy - try to beat this : )
btw - fn=1.92, not bad i guess, probably more than 2.0 in watts ; )
those "rare, long sparks", ho-ho-ho : )