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Re: [TCML] Prepare a Hot Dog (on TV)



Peter Terren wrote:
Look out for a Discovery program "Is it possible" which will be shown in the USA within the next month. I get about 7 minutes on there. Mostly it's Tesla coil stuff but there will be a little bit on vaporising a sausage and exploding a watermelon using a 10kJ capacitor bank just in front of me. but if you tried to use the sausage as a resistor in this setup it will hardly get warm.
Peter   www.tesladownunder.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Dex Dexter" <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
What is the most efficient way to prepare a hot dog
with currents from output of SGTC?
I tried to see if I can cook one hot dog sausage
with currents from output of 100 W SGTC,experimented
with few set ups,but no success (sausage cool).
As I expected 100 W coil is too weak for the job,
but what are the minimum power requirements then?


The power is WAY too low...

100W is 100 Joules/second...

That hot dog weighs, say, 200 grams, and has a specific heat of about 4 Joule/gm/deg

you want to get it from, say, 25C to 90C, a rise of 65 degrees.
65*200*4 = 52,000 Joules.   At 100 Watts, that's 520 seconds.

to cook a hot dog in a reasonable time, you're looking at needing hundreds of watts.
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