Re: Cooling your components

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Cooling your components
• From: "Kent & Kim Schaffer" <santoken-at-bright-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 22:28:38 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

>Tesla often speculated about reducing his system losses by running
>components of his systems under liquid air. We now know that MOST of the
>losses in the primary circuit come from the sparkgap, and most in the
>secondary come from the earth ground and streamer losses (for sparking
>coils). Tesla tried to eliminate the streamer losses - we want to
>maximize them!

Whild this may seem like a stupid question to some, but why exactly did
Tesla try to eliminate streamer losses?  What was he trying to accomplish or
study in doing this?

Kent

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