Re: THOR PROJECT STATUS UPDATE

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• Subject: Re: THOR PROJECT STATUS UPDATE
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 22:35:27 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi Marco,
                Thanks for the data.....

> Original Poster: "Marco Denicolai" <Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs.fi> 
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Primary cap value was 0.05 uF. We had no time to read the voltage because the
> failure came in a couple of seconds (sure, we had a HV probe and scope
> connected). But my tank was set on 10 kV (digital voltmeter reading) for sure
> and I am very confident that was the case.
> 
> I tell you also that the tank can charge that cap 1000 times/sec to 10 kV
> (actually it takes 800 us), and my RSG was rotating at a little bit more than
> 300 bangs/sec. So, whatever was the gap firing voltage, the tank had
plenty of
> time to ramp up to 10 kV between bangs. This is just the situation I
wanted to
> create: independance from gap setting, repeatibility.
<snip>

So we're talking about 750W actual primary power roughly? Would 
you ind giving the secondary coil stats please?  This is getting 
interesting.

Regards,
Malcolm

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