Re: HV wire

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Jonathon ; My small NST powered unit has an average current of less than
60ma, but my peak current pulse in the primary is 400 amps. That is why most
of us use 1/4 in tube as primary wire. Pole pig boys use larger.

> From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:44:35 -0700
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: HV wire
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> Resent-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 16:28:23 -0700
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> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Jonathon,
> 
> At least a few hundred and up to a few thousand amps.  It is really
> important to keep the primary resistances as low as possible at these
> currents since the I^2R loss is very high.
> 
> If we just guess and say we have 500 amps for 10uS at 1 ohm at 120 BPS, we
> dissipate 300 watts as heat!
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Terry
> 
> 
> At 12:13 PM 1/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>> Thanks everyone,
>> 
>> What kind of currents are we dealing with in the tank circuit?
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------
>> Jonathon Reinhart
>> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
>> 
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