Re: DC power on Tesla secondary (was 20 joules at 100 bps vs 4 joules at 500 bps)

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Original poster: "Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'm sure that it will do very bad things to a TC secondary.  20kJ is 
an order of magnitude greater than I have had available before and I 
have a bit of trouble conceptualising that power.
I once reported a gunshot to the police.  It turned out it was about 
a mile away. I think it might be similar.

Peter

> Original poster: boris petkovic <petkovic7@xxxxxxxxx
>
> > I am about to receive two 52uF 20kV caps.  It would
> > be interesting to have a TC arc with 20kJ behind it.  It doesn't 
> sound > too hard on the cap in terms of voltage reversal either 
> with the long > arc in series
> > with the inductance but it would be interesting to
> > measure.
> > Peter
> > http://tesladownunder.com/
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> But It does sound dangerous for your secondary .
> Are you positive it is capable of handling 20 kJ pulse
> without destroying itself?
>
> Boris