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Re: What efficiency?!



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.milSun Nov  3 22:07:43 1996
> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 1996 19:47:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: RE: What efficiency?!
> 
> If you sparked into water contained within
> a chamber then the energy could be
> ascertained from the water temperature
> maybe.  The capacitive loading of the
> water would have to be accounted for in the
> coil's tuning.
> Barry
> 

I gotta "pun out' here and say that sounds "all wet" to me!  Actually, 
the water load would be tremendous and alter the characterisitics of the 
system over air.  Again, I'm not trying to get overall efficiency, just 
spark efficiency in air.

Richard HUll, TCBOR