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

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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>

Gary,

Since I have a 4 kv 20 ma transformer on order - my vote would be to have
two
categories.  One with all shunts installed, just as it comes from the
factory,
and the other with 5 shunts removed - or wherever you want to spec that.  No
limit on gap width.  The reasonable and prudent designer will come up with a
design that will not destroy the transformer, just like we do with all our
coils.

Ed Sonderman

>>>>>>>>>That was my original thought.  Thats why i suggested the five
minute runtime requirement prior to measuring any arc length.  If a coil can
run without failure for five minutes continuous, its a good design.  A poor
design (such as opening up the gap superwide and pulling all shunts) would
probably fail within five minutes.  Also, a similar design such as this
would burn up during test way before any contest run.

Dan