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Re: What efficiency?!
Tesla List wrote:
>
> >From rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-comTue Nov 5 22:15:47 1996
> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 04:42:51 -0800
> From: Richard Wayne Wall <rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: What efficiency?!
>
> You wrote:
>
> >> 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
> >
>
> 11/5/96
>
> All,
>
> Actually discharging a TC into H2O is extremely dangerous. A friend's
> father did just this and distroyed his basement lab. To use an an old
> friends analogy, a consumptives cough is a mere capacitor explosion,
> but this experiment is an R. Hull water arc explosion. A few orders of
> magnitude greater, no doubt.
>
> Mr. Sakovich was trying to do H2O hydrolysis with a TC. Fortunately,
> he had the foresight to have Gene and himself in another room when he
> threw the switch. It freightened him so badly that he never coiled
> again.
>
> Gene Sakovich is not on this list but I will provide his private email
> address for those interested in the details.
>
> RWW
Richard,
Now you've got my curiosity aroused! Hydrolysis generates H2 and O2 in
just the perfect amounts for explosive results. There may be occasions
where discharges hit a damp floor... can you be somewhat more specific
about the set-up he was using?
-- Bert --