Re: 12 MV 100 years ago

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com>

Hi All,

 >From the TCBOR Guide to the Colorado Springs Notes, it says that on July 25
Tesla blew the input fusing at 15KW.  His Westinghouse xfmr could handle
about 60KVA at 60KV.  He never used over 30KV due to his saltwater caps
breaking down.  Tesla wrote it in the notes that he was arcing the secondary
to ground, and that the harmonics caused the arcover of the generator.

David E Weiss

 > Original poster: "Zagarus Rashkae by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <arbitrarily_random-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >  > On the subject of power useage,
 >  >     How much was actually availabe to be used by
 >  > Tesla? I
 >  > recall in one of the books I read (Man out of time
 >  > perhaps?
 >  > It's been awhile.. ) that he managed to shut down
 >  > the power
 >  > plant that was providing power to his colorado
 >  > springs
 >  > laboratory by pulling too much from the mains.. (Or
 >  > was it
 >  > kickback through the feed lines? I honestly can't
 >  > remember.. )
 >  >
 > I believe he drew too much power. It set the generator
 > windings on fire. I've heard other stories about the
 > RF feedback being a multiple of the generator
 > windings' natural resonant frequency, but I can't be
 > sure. The first sounds more credible.
 >
 > Chris Lu
 >
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