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Magnify Power?


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From:  John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
Sent:  Sunday, February 01, 1998 5:12 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Magnify Power?


  Greg -

  Power is not energy so magnifying power does not defy the law of the
conservation of energy. Anyone interested in Tesla coils should have a clear
understanding of the differences between power and energy. There is plenty
of information on this subject in the Tesla List files and the Tesla Coil
Construction Guide.

  Tesla coils are like the space shuttle and hundreds of other power
magnifying mechanisms. With the space shuttle if there is not enough power
magnification (thrust) in the engines because of faulty design the fuel
(energy) will be consumed but the shuttle will remain on the pad. With a
Tesla coil of faulty design there will not be enough power magnification
(voltage) and this means the energy (input) will be consumed but there will
be no sparks (output). The law of conservation of energy will not be defied.

  John Couture

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At 04:56 PM 1/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From:  Gregory R. Hunter [SMTP:ghunter-at-mail.enterprise-dot-net]
>Sent:  Friday, January 30, 1998 1:27 PM
>To:  Tesla List
>Subject:  Magnify Power?
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>Dear Coilers,
>
>I've been reading the mail on the power magnifying properties of
>Tesla coils.  The exchanges were a bit hard to follow, so I looked
>up "magnify" in Webster's.  It said to magnify something is to make
>it appear larger than it really is.  Is that what Tesla coils do? 
>Make electrical power (input) seem greater (at the output) than it
>truly is?  I agree, the big sparks look fantastic, but the average
>output power of a coil can't exceed its input power, no matter how
>spectacular the sparks are.
>
>I hope no one is suggesting that Tesla coils (or magnifiers) defy
>the law of conservation of energy.  I would be very disappointed
>if that's what all the power magnifier discussion was leading up to.
>
>Greg 
>
>Not an Engineer in East Anglia, UK