RE: 'true" spark length was Re: Desktop Bipolar Coil

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Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>


Steve -

Most of the problems you mention are taken care of when the controlled spark
is used. This method has it's limitations but it is the best coilers have at
the present.

John Couture

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Subject: RE: 'true" spark length was Re: Desktop Bipolar Coil


Original poster: "Steve Conner by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>

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

  >the "True"
  >length is indeterminate and may be anything greater than the straight line
  >distance and less than infinity... TCs are far too
  >complex to be able to speak intelligently about single-value performance.

  >Hopefully this may help take some of the fuzziness out of the discussion.

Maybe, but it replaced the fuzziness with fractals and chaos, which is even
worse :D All I know is, it's a random thing, so if you graphed probability
of a strike to a rod in time interval T vs. distance of rod from toroid, you
would probably see a Poisson distribution. We ought to be able to use that
to produce a standard spark length parameter. Maybe someone who actually
knows about statistics could help me out here?

http://stat.tamu.edu/stat30x/notes/node70.html#SECTION00435000000000000000

Steve C.