Re: Power output

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Jim,

If I had to make a good guess with little else to go on, "I" would say it
is 1/2 the V x A rating of your transformer.  About 1/2 the power is lost
in the spark gap.  So for a 9/30 NST (270 watts), I would guess about 135
watts is making it to the spark.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 07:07 AM 3/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi again,
>I was wondering if someone could briefly explain the method of working
>out power output for my coil.
>If I’m not mistaken a transformer's output is a ratio related to input
>and number of turns correct?
>I used Tesla CAD to figure out the frequency of the coil but I see many
>people referring to watts
>and voltage so I was wondering how to determine this.
>Quick specs are:
>Power-9KV/30MA NST
>Primary-12 turns of 1/4 soft copper at 1/4 spacing
>Secondary-850 turns of #22 magnet wire on a 4 in. I.D. form
>HV cap-15K/.01mfd commercial cap(Condenser products)
>
>Please go easy on me as complex, higher math formulas are not exactly my
>thing.
>Thanks,
>Jim
>
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