Re: Getting the bugs out- a little help, please...

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Original poster: "RIAA/MPAA's Worst Nightmare" <mike.marcum-at-zoomtown-dot-com> 

a dc resonant coil with next to no ripple and a stable rsg (uniform timing
to the microsecond) might work. simply use the same power supply for a
classic tc and a magnifier.

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Subject: RE: Getting the bugs out- a little help, please...


 > Original poster: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-mgte-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > Bart, All -
 >
 > Why worry about a random spark length with a random energy input? Until
 > coilers are able to identify the true energy input for a particular random
 > extra long spark length the comparing of Tesla coils by their random
sparks
 > is purely guess work. At present all coilers spark length estimates will
 > have to be taken with a grain of salt.
 >
 >   To make engineering sense a coiler would have to determine the true
input
 > energy or joules for a certain random spark (of a group) and that at
present
 > is impossible to measure or at least has never been done. Even the
 > controlled spark and watts input would only do a fair job for comparing a
 > classical TC with a magnifier.
 >
 > John Couture
 >
 > --------------------------------
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:09 AM
 > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > Subject: Re: Getting the bugs out- a little help, please...
 >
 >
 > Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com>
 >
 > My data shows 162" (13.5 ft) identified in a photograph as longest spark.
 > Richard stated it was 10kva (volt/amps reading). He may have indeed hit 15
 > foot sparks at some point, but I'm certain it was greater than 10kva and
 > probably in the range John mentioned.
 >
 > Take care,
 > Bart
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >
 >  >Original poster: "Chris the great" <downnessisgoingup-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >  >I believe he only used 9kVA to get those 15 footers.....all in all it
was
 >  >a very nice coil.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  >>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  >>Subject: Re: Getting the bugs out- a little help, please... Date: Mon,
10
 >  >>Nov 2003 21:06:22 -0700
 >  >>
 >  >>Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
 >  >>
 >  >>In a message dated 11/10/03 8:18:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
 >  >>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
 >  >>
 >  >>David,
 >  >>
 >  >>Well Richard Hull used approximately that cap value for
 >  >>his Nemesis coil which used a 10kVA, 10kV piggie.
 >  >>He used 11 to 13kVA or so and got about 15 foot sparks.
 >  >>He ran at about 450 bps non-sync.  I agree that the phasing
 >  >>won't be too critical at your 480 bps.  I would think your
 >  >>piggie has the power to charge those caps pretty
 >  >>well at 480 bps.  You could certainly compare the performance
 >  >>at 240 bps and see what happens.
 >  >>
 >  >>John
 >  >>
 >  >>>There are a couple of problems that I encountered
 >  >>>though. First, my Wysock-built rotory gap is sync at
 >  >>>480 bps and w/ .0825 uFD primary capacitance, I'm
 >  >>>thinking that's a little too fast for the capacitor to ever
 >  >>>be able to fully charge before discharging across the
 >  >>>SG and that would definitely limit my sec. voltage gain.
 >  >>>I haven't built a Freau phase adjuster yet either as I'm
 >  >>>not sure that the phase angle would even be that big
 >  >>>of an issue at 480 bps. I'm thinking about removing
 >  >>>4 of the 8 rotory electrodes to go for 240 bps. Maybe
 >  >>>some of you you more mathematically inclined mem-
 >  >>>bers can tell me what the best bps rate range should
 >  >>>be for this coil. My power supply is a 10 kVA, 14400
 >  >>>volt PDT controlled through (2) paralleled 1256 variacs
 >  >>>(up to 280 volts -at- 56 amps) and ballasted w/ a seriesed
 >  >>>225 amp arc welder w/ the welding leads shorted. It just
 >  >>>seems that I ought to be able get brighter,longer, more
 >  >>>powerful sparks w/ my available power. Of course, like I
 >  >>>said, I just roughly tuned it in tonight.
 >  >>
 >
 >