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- To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
- Subject: Re: Musein' and mathin'
- From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
- Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:15:08 -0800 (PST)
Richard: 3 megawatts is still a lot of power! I suspect some of your musings are a bit pessimistic. Biggest unknown is the real secondary impedance under breakdown conditions, and therefor the therefore the actual coupling conditions. However, as far as where the power goes, consider the heating. Obviously a lot of heat goes into the spark gap, but the rest has to go into the tuned circuits. You can guess how much is dissipated in the primary by observing the temperature of the components (primarily the inductor if you have a good capacitor, not the doorknobs I use here). I think you will conclude that the heating is not commensurate with 300 watts or so dissipated, and you could check that by feeding current through the primary until you get the same temperature. Anyhow, what's the difference? 3 megawatts is still a lot of power! And, it's all for fun. Ed
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