RE: short question

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Original poster: "John H. Alderman III by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alderhood-at-bellsouth-dot-net>

Does a "normal" apply to tubes not attached to ballast and power but just
the Tesla affect? Then tubes would glow just from the energy and the energy
field intensity could be controlled by throttling the ground feed back? BTW
have you all seen the new Phillips Light bulbs that are each a tesla coil?
If anyone again has copy of intense physics/math analysis of the affect I
would love to read over.

John

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Subject: Re: short question


Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz
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  >   Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
  > Original poster: "John H. Alderman III by way of Terry Fritz "

What happens when you put a tesla coil in a Faraday Cage?

Neglecting the detuning effects of the cage the Tesla coil should behave
much the same inside the cage as it does outside.

Where does the
  > energy go?

Assuming the Faraday cage is connected to the grounded return lead from the
secondary,
virtually all of  the energy transmitted by the coil -be it  by sparks or by
electromagnetic effects- will be intercepted by the interior surface of the
cage and flow back to the secondary as a current in the ground lead.

Apart from the fact that the output of the Tesla coil is high frequency AC,
what happens  is  almost precisely the same as in a normal electric circuit
where a voltage source such as a battery is connected to a load  such as a
light bulb via feed and return wires

What happens to florescent lights in the cage?

Fluorescent lights in the cage would light the same as normal.

Jolyon.