Re: Practical limit to number of turns on primary ? ? ?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/30/03 6:50:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Malcolm, all,

It would be good to see irrefutable proof of the results.  It would seem
to me that extraordinary claims require strong evidence.  Indeed this
would usher in a new era of coiling.  Perhaps some others will try
the method and provide some peer review.  I remember
when some folks were questioning my results with my old research
coil, it took quite awhile before most folks were satisfied with my
measuring technique.  I wound up using a wattmeter, and cross-
checking it with a thermocouple ammeter with a resistive load.
Still the results were not 100% reliable because of possible
confusion of the wattmeter by harmonics, etc.  Most figured the
wattmeter was pretty good though.

I tried 2500 turns on a coil one time, but the results were disappointing.
I figure the wire losses were getting too high.

John


>I'm still not clear on whether the 2 kW was actually measured. As we
>all know, transformer faceplate ratings don't mean a thing when it
>comes to power throughput. I'd be interested to hear a comment from
>John Freau and others on this apparent demolition of what seemed like
>a well-supported-by-experiment equation. I'm not of course saying
>that it can't be done - just noting that when an apparent discrepancy
>of this magnitude it should be properly investigated.
>
>Regards,
>malcolm
>