Re: Discharge impedance of a CW Tesla coil

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• Subject: Re: Discharge impedance of a CW Tesla coil
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:05:34 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

All sparks are hot aren't they?

Malcolm

On 16 Mar 00, at 16:30, Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "Ruud de Graaf" <rdegraaf-at-daxis.nl> 
> 
<snip>

> >> Methinks you are on the right track with relating the ozone production to
> >the
> >> size of the discharge. John Freau reports that he gets considerable ozone
> >> from his VTTC throwing 19 inch sparks. Not only is the 3O2 + energy
> yields
> >> 2O3 reaction unstable, less than
> >> 8% of the available oxygen is utilized before the reaction reverses. The
> >> triatomic
> >> molecule uses 8 % of 20% of the volume of air in the room. So the way I
> seez
> >> it, my little VTTC produces no detectable ozone because the volume of air
> >> within the discharge "sphere" is too small.
> >
> >If that is all true, then why is there little detectable ozone when you
> >create long arcs with an arc welder?  The fact that spark length is
> >mentioned again and again says to me that there is a voltage (read
> >energetic) factor involved. ?
> >
> >Regards,
> >Malcolm
> >
> 
> 
> HEAT!!!! (2*O3 > *O2)
> 
> Ruud de Graaf
> 
> 

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