Re: Losses and work, was An intersting idea for ballast.

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

In a message dated 8/31/01 11:46:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> However, one thing I always
>  find ironic about the attempt to make a less lossy Tesla Coil is the fact
>  that the Tesla Coil is not
>  actually doing any work.  Its just making sparks.
>              --Mike
>  

Mike,

I don't see any irony here.  Heating and ionizing air to form
sparks is the work.  Less losses results in longer sparks for a
given input power which is what most of us want I think.  

John Freau