Re: 100 kva coil

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: 100 kva coil
From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 23:34:25 +0000
At 04:31 AM 9/20/96 +0000, you 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
>

Hi Guys -

You can get a spark a mile long. All you need is a toroid that can store
about 100 coulombs and the equation  Q = C V . Refer to Ulman's "Lightning"
book.

JHC