Re: Maggies and such

[FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 8/16/00 11:23:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Original poster: "Duke, Ronn (CCI-San Diego CCC)" <Ron.Duke-at-cox-dot-com> 
>  
>  Since it is preferable to have the maximum power available in a magnifier,
>  wouldn't it be better to have a DC power supply feeding it? You would be
>  running a variable RSG anyway, so it would not be limited by the AC sine
>  wave. You could adjust capacitance (by adding or subtracting strings on an
>  MMC) to the break rate for best performance. Is this possible?

Ron,

You can run a magnifier on DC power, but it won't give any
particular advantage compared to running a normal Tesla coil 
on DC.  Magnifiers and normal TC's work basically the same.

Cheers,
John Freau