Voltage/Length (fwd)

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Subject: Voltage/Length (fwd)
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 23:12:49 -0600
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From:  John H. Couture [SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
Sent:  Friday, January 23, 1998 5:02 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Voltage/Length (fwd)

At 11:22 PM 1/22/98 +0000, you wrote:
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>From:  Jim Lux [SMTP:jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net]
>Sent:  Thursday, January 22, 1998 10:31 AM
>To:  Tesla List
>Subject:  Re: ReVoltage/Length (fwd)
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>Didn't Tuve, et.al. do some measurements on a 5 MV tesla coil in a oil tank
>using a capacitive divider and a calibrated sphere gap back in the 30's or
>40's, before electrostatic generators became popular for accelerators?
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  Jim -

  Tuve, et al did build and test a 5 MV TC in 1930. A drawing is shown in
the Tesla Coil Construction Guide. Also shown are some calculations on how
they determined the power gain.

  The Guide also shows a test method to measure the TC secondary voltage of
a small TC using a remote pickup probe. I made some tests with this setup
using a small TC but the results were inconclusive.

  John Couture