Re: tesla coil current

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

 > IF you want to measure voltages on the top load, the way to do it is with
 > an E field probe.  This is fairly easy to calibrate, as well (you can use a
 > test signal generator to drive the system at low voltage with enough
 > current to allow use of a standard meter to measure the topload voltage).

	How can this work when streamers are present?  You can't calibrate at a
low voltage and expect to have the same electric field distribution as
you will have when breakout is going on.

Ed