Re: Air Caps

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Marry Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Terry, Cory!
> 
>         My physics teacher has a coil about 5 feet tall that puts out INTENSE
> 2.5 foot sparks (no toroid, uses a bolt as a top terminal), using a 20
> pF primary cap (if my calculations are correct).  Two 18 by 18 inch
> plates 3.5 inches apart, with air as the dielectric.  It puts out so
> many sparks per cycle that it looks like the thing is on fire.
> 
> Winston

	Very interesting and sure sounds different!!  Can you get us a picture
of the coil and of it in operation?

Ed