Re: Tesla Diodes home made?

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Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alex-at-rices.myip-dot-org>

All
	I think that whilst this would work in 
principle there would be a few problems, at TC 
frequencies the capacitance of such a device 
may well mean that significant AC power was 
transferred across the gap, also at such a 
high voltage the device would have to be 
physically large - i presume that the gap 
between the needle point and the inside of the 
sphere would need to be a significant 
proportion of the maximium arc length. Maybee 
several much smaller devices in series would 
be good.

Why you would want DC at these kinds of 
voltages is beyond me - a lin ac maybee but 
even so, surely a Van de Graff generator would 
be easier!

just my ha'penny (2c)

alex