RE: coil discharge color

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi Mark

The secondary system of a tesla coil can store enough energy to produce a
1000 ampere discharge, but the time duration of such a pulse would be
extremely short. I remember reading about a General Electric x-ray unit
powered by a tesla coil with a steady output of 1000,000V/30MA. The resonant
frequency was 120 Hz. The entire outfit was contained in a steel tank filled
with gas under high pressure. The primary system was supplied with over
200,000 watts and was cooled by flowing water. 

Godfrey Loudner



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> Sent:	Tuesday, June 12, 2001 9:50 PM
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> Subject:	Re: coil discharge color
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <A123X-at-aol-dot-com>
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> No, it isn't that high of an output current. You'd have to have a powerful
> 
> coil to get 30ma off the secondary. Lets say the output voltage is 250kv, 
> pretty small, 1 foot arcs maybe. 250kv times .03 amps equals 7500KVA, way 
> higher power than that size coil would take in. Coils aren't really
> efficient 
> either. 
> 
> Mark 
> 
> In a message dated 6/12/01 9:24:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
> writes: 
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> > Original poster: "Matt Segal by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> > segal3-at-linkline-dot-com> 
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> > In a Jacobs Ladder, it is only running off the current output of the
> NST, 
> > and I've seen Jacobs Ladders run off 15/30s...only 30mA...I believe the 
> > output of a TC is much higher than that. 
> >
> > ~Matt Segal 
> > Email - segal3-at-linkline-dot-com 
> > Webpage - http://www.carbonOS-dot-com 
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