Small tesla coil (1sq ft) findings

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• Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 23:57:00 -0500
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From:  Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent:  Sunday, June 21, 1998 4:37 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Small tesla coil (1sq ft) findings

Hi Jeff,

> From:  Jeff Corr [SMTP:corr-at-enid-dot-com]
> Sent:  Friday, June 19, 1998 12:25 AM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  Re: Small tesla coil (1sq ft) findings
> 
> >This post makes me think it could be time to resurrect Robert 
> >Stephen's suggestion of a competition for small coils. I would 
> >definitely be a starter in the bang for buck stakes. Whatthinks?
> 
> Sounds interesting.  By "small coils" do you mean the primary and
> secondary or the entire setup... with chokes, without, what?

I guess I really mean lower power. One can't run 100W say into a 10" 
coil and expect any output because the voltage developed would be too 
low. Therefore one would want to use a small resonator with low 
capacitance. I'd just be interested to see what is possible with say,
a primary energy fixed at some level and BPS unlimited. I think a lot 
could be learned from such an exercise. I recently got better than 
12" from a 5kV 30mA transformer. I didn't scope the BPS but it would 
have been around 100, certainly not more. Perhaps it's something I 
should pursue.

Malcolm

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