Re: what is "power factor rating?"

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Rscopper-at-aol-dot-com>

Power factor correction will not give you bigger sparks, but it will allow 
you to pull less amps from the wall outlet for the same spark length. 

Scott 

In a message dated 1/5/01 9:13:29 PM US Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


>
> Hi everyone, 
> I built two small coil from plans. 
> Now I am desiging a coil using WinTesla 
> (The quarter wavelength with my top load cap is as close as I can get to 
> the 
> secondary wire length , and LpCp is as close as possible to LsCs.)I am 
> using 
> a 10kv .023 ma OBIT 
>
> anyway what is the Power Factor Rating and why would I need a power 
> correction capacitor?(I didn't need one on my other coils) 
>
> can anyone explain 
> Joseph