RE: very confused coil results

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Original poster: "Kevin by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kweaver-at-vvm-dot-com>

Hi Ed...all
I think Chris is making reference to the Fantastic Inventions of Nikola
Tesla on page 60 from the lecture on experiments with alternating currents
of high potential and frequency "With the kind of discharger I have been
able to maintain an oscillating motion without any spark being visible"

But I guess my main question is could this be some kind of capacitive
coupling across the spark gap letting a small amount of power pass? If it is
then do we need the gap at all?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 12:38 PM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: very confused coil results
>
>
> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
> Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "David Thomson by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dave-at-volantis-dot-org>
> >
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Nikola Tesla remarked in one of his papers that he could tune a
> coil so well
> > that no action would be seen at the spark gap, even though the coil was
> > fully operational.  You got to remember that a spark gap is
>
> 	Very strange!  What's the reference and are you sure your quote is
> exact?
>
> Ed
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