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Re: Tesla Coil RF Transmitter



Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx

In a message dated 10/8/05 1:54:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
vaguely recall a number more like 1000uF, but I don't see it in books in
my collection.


Lets try calculating:

  Area / Platespacing * 8.9e-12 = farads

  4 * PI * 6,400,000^2 / 100,000 * 8.9e-12 = 46,000 uF

To get 250,000uF the insulating part of the atmosphere would have to be
only 12 miles thick.


This is exactly the altitude Tesla referred to in his patent. Remember, Tesla was trying to utilize a tropospheric phenomenon, NOT the 50+ mi high region that decades later was discovered to be the ionosphere.


Matt D.