Re: ark voltage

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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 4/1/02 7:46:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Jonathan

Tesla coil sparks grow a lot by repetitive re-ignitions of hot
streamer (leader) trails.  This causes the voltage to be lower
than "expected".  A small coil may produce 300kV or so,
and this drops to about half that value when the sparks 
actually break out of the toroid.

cheers,
John


>
> I'm kind of curious about the voltage coming off the toroid...
> Is it still 70kV/inch (35kV/Cm)
>
> It doesn't seem like my wimpy 20" sparks are (20 * 70,000)= 1,400,000 Volts!
>
> The large coil on eBay advertises  "600,000 volts - 8-10 foot arcs"
>
> Just curious,
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart