Re: Gap Losses

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Gap Losses
• From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
• Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 10:08:52 -0700

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From dll-at-egg-rb-dot-comThu Sep 26 21:51:25 1996
> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 07:11:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: dll-at-egg-rb-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Gap Losses
> 
> I think a calorimeter could be made in which the gap is immersed in a known
> quantity of dielectric fluid, and the whole thing thermally insulated.  Then by
> measuring the temperature rise of the fluid as a function of time, and assuming
> that the specific heat of the fluid is known, the energy loss in the gap could
> be computed. I might try this on my new small coil.
> 
> Regards
> Dave Lockwood


Dave watch out for carbonization of hydrocarbons which would foul the 
results.  Most dielectric fluids would ionize quite differently than air 
and skew the results.  Oh!  Don't forget flashpoints, too.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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