Re: getting high voltage from the high voltage lines? (fwd)

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

> Hello everyone,
>        Before I knew much about TCs I had wondered about this too... Say
some
> one, like TTR or someone was to build a huge coil, that would require a
14.4 kV
> feed, how would you go about ballasting and filtering it? that much power
would
> require some pretty massive ballasts and filters... Is it even possible?

Not really.  They would pretty much be the same size (electrically speaking,
not physically) as when using large pole transformers to run huge coils.
For example, even a big tesla coil running at 50 kilowatts would only be
drawing about 3-4 Amps from the 14.4kV line.  The only reason the filters /
ballasts would be large is that you would need higher voltage stand-off.



Dan





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> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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> In a message dated 9/20/02 1:13:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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