Re: The Tabletop Tesla Coil Showdown - OFFICIAL RULES and WEBSITE

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Original poster: "Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <s371034-at-student.uq.edu.au>

Why don't you let people use their imagination? If people get better 
sparks using rectified/voltage multipliers or magnifier systems, this 
will indicate that these methods are better, not only for TTTCs, but 
possibly for the rest of us with bigger coils. Why not simply set the 
voltage/current requirements of the initial power supply and see what 
people can do. This whole idea is getting silly. Why not let people 
try using a small tank cap with high BPS or a large tank cap with low 
BPS, and so on. Otherwise it comes down purely to losses in the 
primary/secondary circuits which those of us with more money are able 
to minimise because they can afford low loss coilforms etc. I want to 
see people's ingenuity win this competition. Let's just see who can 
do what with a 4kV, 20mA transformer, using their crazy ideas.


My two cents,

Greg.