Re: Output

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

"I" use the following to guess the secondary voltage:

Vs = 1/2 Vp SQRT(Ls/Lp)

Basically the old equation divided in half to account for about half the
energy being eaten in the gap.  It seems to work pretty well in my tests.

Cheers,

	Terry




At 01:22 PM 8/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Most people use a constant for to estimate voltage. I think that
>1,000,000volts/5feet works best. I heard Tesla quote that his colorado
>springs complex put out up to 15-20MV, which comes to 100 foot discharges...
>Sounds about right...
>
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>Subject: Output
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>> Original poster: "Dan Kunkel" <dankunkel-at-hotmail-dot-com>
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>> Coilers,
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>> why is it that we have no way of determining secondary voltage in these
>> modern times? how was Tesla always able to quote his output voltage? was
>it
>> an educated guess (arc length). i think his bold claim was 135 million
>> volts. did Golka or the brothers Corum ever state their output?
>>
>> Dan
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