Re: [TCML] New Double Toroid - Magnifier hype

["Peter Terren" <pterren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agree entirely about magnifiers with tertiary coil vs spark length as being 
meaningless.   I go further to say that when you compare total coil height 
of secondary and tertiary, the spark to coil length shows no advantage over 
a conventional coil and is typically 3:1 on a good coil.  As I recall when I 
did this calc before with Hull's coils, it was no better performing than his 
conventional coil like his Nemesis.
Peter

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FutureT@xxxxxxx>


> As an aside here....
> Folks used to talk about getting sparks that are 10 times as long as
> the extra coil in a magnifier, etc.  By putting a tiny one turn coil 
> (extra
> coil)
> below the final toroid, you will have created a "magnifier" of sorts (ho 
> ho),
> and if the extra coil is 1/8" long, then you can get sparks that  are ~150
> times longer
> than the extra coil, etc.  You can see why I never thought much of  that
> method of judging a magnifier's performance.  But as a fun thing  it would
> let you claim the record for a magnifier's performance based on that 
> metric
> anyhow.
>
> Cheers,
> John
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