Re: More real experiments

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: More real experiments
• From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
• Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:25:37 -0800

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From lod-at-pacbell-dot-netSun Nov 17 11:50:50 1996
> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 14:12:00 +0000
> From: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: More real experiments
> 
> Richard Hull wrote:
> 
> > Well gang,
> >
> > I have been busy over the weekend with my Pearson current monitor and
> > capacitive HV voltage divider.  I physically measured the voltge across
> > the gap and current through it while the coil was in operation.  In an
> > effort to find the power consumed by the gap in operation.

R. Hull
> 
> [snip]
> 

> Interesting experiment!  Did you try the same msmt at other power levels?
> I'm curious as to how the arc resistance will vary as the current is increased.
> On your six-gap tungsten sparkgap, what was the total gap distance?
> 
>snip
> -GL

Greg,

The little micro coil that I was using really couldn't handle much more 
powr than I used as it was only 3" diameter by 5" tall.  I hope to try a 
number of additional experiments soon with more variants in it.  The 
total gap of the six gaps was on the order of .018".

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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