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Re: Tesla's large pancake coil (and Myth Busters)



Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>

  QUESTION:  If we actually build a large pancake-style TC secondary, and
  mount a sphere terminal on the end of a central rod, then does the
  discharge tend to occupy a fairly narrow cone which is directed
  outwards from the pancake coil?     Yes or no."

NO. The discharge tends to follow the electric field lines back to the periphery of the coil.

Ed