Re: Coil ratio; width versus length.

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi John,

High L/P ratio sounds good to me. However, I would guess high bps coils
would not
be as low of losses as they could be. Granted, sparks may be whiter as their
pushing watts through the system, but I would wonder if the high repitition
of gap
action would cause considerable loss when it comes down to wall plug power and
sparklength. It would probably require quite a few electrodes to keep the
losses
down, and even then, I'd bet on the low bps coils to win out in the gap
loss arena,
thus greatly affecting the overall.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> In a message dated 4/8/02 3:57:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> Bart,
>
> The problem with calling it a low loss system is it does not consider
> the growth of sparks in the air.  Higher bps may make the sparks
> brighter rather than longer to some extent, so this is not necessarily
> a loss, since some folks may prefer the brighter sparks.  What I'm
> saying is that some aspects of my designs may reduce losses, but
> other aspects may increase the spark length in ways that do not
> directly involve lowered losses.
>
> Hmmmm.  I'm thinking of a new term here....  something like a
> "high spark length to input power ratio" or a "high L/P ratio" design.
> Or perhaps a high "SL/IP" design.  My equations would then be
> viewed as predicting the performance of high L/P ratio designs,
> or high spark length to power input design.  This terminology
> seems a little cumbersome though.
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
> >
> > Agree. I've never liked even using the word "efficiency" because of the
many
> > discussions in the past on the subject and the many different points of
> > reference
> > to it. But I think we can call it a "low-loss" design. This term should be
> > easily
> > understood that it refers to the entire system from start to finish, not
> > just one
> > part of the coil. With this in mind, a "low-loss" design will maximize the
> > output
> > for whatever that potential is on each coil.
> >
> > Your equations can be viewed as predicted sparklengths for power input
based
> > on
> > low-loss systems.
> >
> > Take care,
> > Bart
> >
> >