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which setup produces longest sparks?



Original poster: "Simonas by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rasim-at-takas.lt>

hiall!

I have two options selecting primary capacitor value, maybe The List could
help me choose  the best.
Info:
constant setup:
DC tesla coil, ARSG, 9000VA, primary voltage ~10kV, with inductive resonant
charging - 20kV. Secondary coil is 80mH, capacitance 25pF, toroid
capacitance 63pF, resonant frequency 60kHz.

Now the hard part:

setup1: primary capacitor 0.5uF, primary inductance 14uH, 95 BPS.

OR

setup2: primary capacitor 0.2uF, primary inductance 35uH, 240 BPS

in both setups there's maximum power consumption, but which one would
produce longest arcs??? according to simple theory the one with bigest
primary capacitance should produce highest voltage on toroid and thus arc
length.. is it so in practice???

Simonas