Re: Simulation of a conventional Tesla coil

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Ken,

At 02:30 PM 5/18/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>Tell me more about the ohms per gap.  Is that ohms per 1/4"-or-so arc, or
>ohms per arc + hardware, or... what?  And what, I wonder, would be the
>resistance of a 0.03" gap--with negligible hardware resistance?  That
>might well be a lot better.

I just looked at the ring down of my spark gap coil primaries with no 
secondary in place, and that is the resistance I get.  The 2-3 ohms things 
seems to always work well and predict the gap losses close enough.

It would be interesting to revisit spark gap voltages and currents now that 
the equipment is so much better...

Cheers,

         Terry