More Voltage

To: "'Tesla'" <tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com>
Subject: More Voltage
From: "Larry C. Gardner" <larrycg-at-intele-dot-net>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:35:30 -0700
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	Hello all,  I am new to the list and currently attending an electronics school, this fall I will return to USU to continue my study of Physics.

	I was just wondering if anyone has attempted to use a parallel charge, series discharge of caps in there Tesla coil.  It seems possible to use a number of spark gaps, with increasing breakdown voltages, to produce an increase in applied voltage.

	------------------------------------------------------------o
	  |     \             |     \            |    \
	  |      \	      |      \           |     \
  	-----     o        -----      o       -----     o
	-----      o       -----       o      -----      o
	  |          \        |         \        |         \
	  |           \       |          \       |          \
            ------------------------------------------------------------o

	If say, we used a 5kv input, then the first gap could be set to fire at 5kv, the second at 10kv, the third at 15kv, and the final gap, or traditional spark gat set to 20kv.  Would this not appear that we input 20kv and not 5kv.  It seems logical, but has any one tried it?

	Larry Gardner