Re: Golka Photos

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

All,
In the new photos Mike posted, the picture labeled "Inside Building View 
Coil At Climax Mine Leadville Co.jpg" appears to show the coil built on top 
of a raised floor, maybe as much as 2 feet off the ground. Someone had 
mentioned that the coil may have suffered from some parasitic losses due to 
being on the ground.
Paul Brodie
Think Positive


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Subject: Re: Golka Photos

> Original poster: David Speck 
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> Group,
> I looked at the photos of the Golka coil that Malcolm posted.
>
> Perhaps this is a silly question but I wonder if the efficiency of the unit
> would have been better if the primary coils were higher above the
> ground.  I've read that the earth is a pretty good conductor, and with the
> primary coil being nearly on the ground, it would seem like the earth would
> be like a big shorted turn.  I could see the system wasting a lot of energy
> just heating the dirt inside the coil setup.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave
>
>
>>         I scanned a couple of photos I obtained a long time ago from some
>> Science magazine of Robert Golka's early replica of Tesla's CS coil.
>> Terry has kindly put them at:
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