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Re: Output Voltage vs. Firing Rate (fwd)





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Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 13:51:53 -0700
From: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Output Voltage vs. Firing Rate (fwd)

Terry Fritz wrote:


>         We were having a little Colorado Tesla meeting on Sunday.  I noticed that
> my gap seemed to give better sparks when the gap was set to a lower voltage
> than maximum.  In other words, The streamers were longer with lower gap
> voltage settings.  Modeling shows that this is probably due to the fact that
> the firing rate probably increased by a factor of three from 120 Hz to 360 Hz.

This is the _essential_ difference between a TC optimized for
max Vout, and one optimized for the longest streamers!  

Virtually all TC builders want to optimize spark length.
Therefore the designer should configure the TC to properly 
incinerate the air, rather than to just produce the maximum voltage.
Rep rate is just as important as Vout.  <150BPS is insufficient.
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-GL
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