Re: Output

["Malcolm Watts" <M.J.Watts-at-massey.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

On 28 Aug 00, at 20:24, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "acmnovak" <acmnovak-at-email.msn-dot-com> 
> 
> Most people use a constant for to estimate voltage. I think that
> 1,000,000volts/5feet works best. I heard Tesla quote that his colorado
> springs complex put out up to 15-20MV, which comes to 100 foot discharges...
> Sounds about right...

IMHO you cannot measure output voltage of a TC by sparklength. 
There is a very simple test to prove this: Run your coil 
single shot. What sparklength do you measure to a grounded 
rod? To air? Now increase the breakrate to 120BPS. What do you 
now measure? Output voltage doesn't change between these two 
tests.

Malcolm

  
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> > Original poster: "Dan Kunkel" <dankunkel-at-hotmail-dot-com>
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> > Coilers,
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> > why is it that we have no way of determining secondary voltage in these
> > modern times? how was Tesla always able to quote his output voltage? was
> it
> > an educated guess (arc length). i think his bold claim was 135 million
> > volts. did Golka or the brothers Corum ever state their output?
> >
> > Dan
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