Re: indication of good tuning (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:12:31 -0700
From: Ken or Doris Herrick <kchdlh@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: indication of good tuning (fwd)

I'd think that's a "logical argument" that might have come from Tesla 
himself.  After all, he didn't want sparks, he wanted to broadcast 
energy.  For him, sparks were, indeed, wasteful--except, perhaps, to 
impress investors.  But we "coilers", presumably, just want the sparks 
and don't care much about the efficiency.  Except--we don't want to be 
so inefficient that we burn up our apparatus.

Ken Herrick

Tesla list wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:05:24 -0500
> From: Matthew Boddicker <shmerpleton_town@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: indication of good tuning
>
> Hi everyone, this is Matthew Boddicker.
>
> Around five months ago read that a coil is properly tuned when it has the 
> maximum spark length coming out of the top load.
>
> I also heard a logical argument saying, "Having sparks coming out of the top 
> load is wasted energy, showing that the coil isn't properly tuned due to its 
> inefficiency." Something to that effect anyway.
>
> So what is the best indication of a properly tuned coil? Minimal spark 
> length or maximum spark length?
>
> Thanks!
>
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