Re: very confused coil results

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Original poster: "Chris Swinson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <exxos-at-cps-games.co.uk>

Hi Kevin,


> 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?

I was making reference to anything, I think I have that book though so I
will sure look that page up!

Chris