RE: weather influence on TC performance

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: RE: weather influence on TC performance
From: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 18:44:16 -0700
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We did a run yesterday and with humidity at almost 90% (the ground was wet, 
but it wasn't *quite* raining), performance was terrible. 3' arcs, and 
totally different tuneing for the same loads as before.
It was also much warmer, no snow (it all melted). A rather icky day.

>Original Poster: "Basura, Brian" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>
>
>Robin,
>
>I find my coils like to run when it's near freezing outside. The humidity
>doesn't seem to matter much as long as it's non condensing (although high
>humidity here in the Southern California Desert is 40%)...
>
>Regards,
>Brian
>
>PS - I ran my coil last weekend between rain showers. Temp was 40 degrees
>Fahrenheit and performance was great (6' ground strikes with an occasional
>7'). Normally I wouldn't run in these conditions but Alex Crow was here 
>from
>England.
>
>PSS - We did have a small disaster. I have a heavy skirt around the base of
>my coil to block the RSG light. This skirt blew into the RSG and the "*****
>hit the rotating oscillator". It broke the eight rotating electrodes into 
>24
>pieces :(
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla List [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
>Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 6:05 AM
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: weather influence on TC performance
>
>
>Original Poster: "Robin Copini" <rcopini-at-merlin-dot-net.au>
>
>Hi all,
>
>  I have a question involving the performance of TC's and the ambient
>weather conditions. For those that don't know
>
><snip-a-roonie>
>
>Robin Copini.
>
>
>

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