Frequency

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

> What about frequency?


	What about it?

>I ask because i do not understand the complex relationship

>between tuning and size of the coils. If the Tesla coil is
> subjected to high frequency


	How high is high?

> currents would it behave in the same manner?


	Tesla coils routinely operate at 100,000 Hz
	is that high?

> Let us assume for a moment Tesla attached his 480 pole generator.

> If this were feeding the capacitors, the frequency of alterations

>would number 240,000/second.


	Which might not have time to charge.

> Tesla also constructed some generators that were very high
> amperage.


	We have more amps available than Tesla did.
	(OK, not all of 'us' do, but it's available.)

	best
	dwp