Re: Coil efficiency

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• Subject: Re: Coil efficiency
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• Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 08:58:58 -0600
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From: 	David Huffman[SMTP:huffman-at-FNAL.GOV]
Sent: 	Friday, November 14, 1997 8:09 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Coil efficiency

Sounds like these numbers are reversed. That or plasma discharge behaves
differently.
mystified! Dave Huffman


>
>From: Gomez [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
>Sent: Thursday, November 13, 1997 8:55 AM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Coil efficiency
>
>A comment on atmospheric pressure vs. spark length.
>
>I was recently stunned to learn from one of our customers that a coil which
>had made 3-4' sparks in Colorado (5300' ASL) was making 5-6' sparks in
>Indiana (500' ASL).  Humidity was about the same, according to NWS
>records.
>
>Geez, I'd love to get my big coil (12'+ sparks without the new series
>rotary gap, which is in progress) down to sea level!
>
>-Gomez
>
>--
>Gomez: certifiable mad scientist, extreme fetishist, fiction dabbler,
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>
>

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