RE: [TCML] output voltage for Tesla transformer

["Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>]

Yes, but I'm not sure that achieving maximum peak voltage means that you'd get bigger sparks.  The fact that sparks occur at all means that it's not achieving maximum potential.  With Tesla's goal of transmitting power, he also was shooting for maximum voltage with minimal sparking.  Achieving maximum voltage is good for bragging rights, but in order to get the longest sparks, the voltage will be less than maximum.

Choosing the optimum topload for maximum spark length is still something of a black art.  It's been my experience that bigger is almost always better, though surely there is a size at which breakout no longer occurs.  It may be that the critical size is bigger than my sense of aesthetics or budget would allow.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Tim Meehan
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 2:49 PM
> To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [TCML] output voltage for Tesla transformer
>
> So a bigger topload (or one with less surface curvature) would get you
> closer to maximum voltage?  If you had a tiny coil with a huge topload ...
> could you (theoretically) get bigger sparks?
>
> On Nov 17, 2007 8:00 AM, Lau, Gary <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I think that in our application, the peak voltage attainable is limited by
> > when breakout and corona occur, driven by secondary and topload geometry.
> >
> > Regards, Gary Lau
> > MA, USA
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> > > Behalf Of Jared Dwarshuis
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 8:42 AM
> > > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [TCML] output voltage for Tesla transformer
> > >
> > > [TCML] output voltage for Tesla transformer
> > >
> > >
> > > Coupled driven oscillators (at the correct frequency) have no upward
> > > limit for peak amplitude if resistance is neglected. Obviously we
> > > cannot neglect resistance it is always present and it always keeps
> > > amplitudes from growing without bound.
> > >
> > >
> > > Sincerely: Jared Dwarshuis

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