Re: Duty Cycle

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Original poster: "R Heidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

on 11/06/01 6:27 PM, Tesla list at tesla-at-pupman-dot-com wrote:

> Original poster: "Ted Rosenberg by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Ted.Rosenberg-at-radioshack-dot-com>
> 
> Thanks Jon. Now I have at least a sort of a yardstick. As I tried to recall,
> no one in particular ever said in so many words "I was running my coil
> for...." on the list.
> Or...I was running my coil for X time units until the cops showed up <big
> silly smile>.
> 
> Ted
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 4:33 PM
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> Subject: Re: Duty Cycle
> 
> 
> Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-mcn-dot-org>
> 
> Ted,
> 
> Well, I once let my coil go for 30 min continous, on full power,
> 
> <snip>
> Jonathan Peakall
> 
>> What has the list's experience been with max ON time of anyone's coil?
>> In other words, how long has anyone left their coil on before they felt it
>> was "too long" and had everything go OK?
> 
> 
> 
> 
I dont know what others do., I have run my tube TC for 8 hour shifts day
after day. My spark TC will only go about 2 hours befor my gap fowels..
Your " silly smile" comment caught my intrest. In the 1950'S I had a SG
tesla powering point/cup carrona rectifiers to charge 55gal oil drums on top
coke bottle insulators to power an experiment. Everything went well until a
knock on the door interupted me. My sute and tie guests said I wiped out
communications for 75 miles. They suggested I play in an old mine shaft.