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Re: 100 kva coil
Tesla List wrote:
>
> >From leyh-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-comThu Sep 19 22:29:18 1996
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:52:59 +0000
> From: "G.E. Leyh" <leyh-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
>
> Richard Hull wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > reaching out this far. I have a number of videos of Leyh's coil in
> > operation. It appears that he can easily hit 25 feet straight line
> > discharge path (power unknown in that particular video.) This is quite
> > efficient for the estimated power input (20-30KVA) What is your best
> > point to point spark and highest power Greg that was actually tape
> > measured out??).
>
> Good guess! 25 feet is about right for horizontal strikes when the coil
> is first turned on. After approximately 10 seconds though, sufficent amounts
> of ions and heat convection develop to direct the arcs upward, at which
> point the streamers can connect with some steel roofing trusses about
> 30 feet away from the toroid. The AC power usage is actually about 45kVA
> on the meters at full gap speed. I hope to get that down to about 35kVA
> with some modifications to the primary circuitry.
>
> Regarding the 500kVA system:
> A 35 million volt coil!?! I would like to see the component values
> for that one, given that Cpri X (Vpri)^2 = Csec X (Vsec)^2.
>
> Come on Bill, whatever happened to the Conservation of Energy???
>
> -GL
Amen Brother!
R. Hull, TCBOR