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Re: Possible Record

Hi Nick,

        From the description and judging from the 7.5 foot extra coil, I would
say the arc shown in the pickture is 40 feet max.  From what I have heard, the
building at Wendover was not big enough to contain a 105 foot arc??  

However, Richard Quick is an authority...

Cheers,

        Terry


At 07:01 PM 03/19/2000 +0000, you wrote: 
>
> Hi All,
>          after the avlaon idea came on list I did a bit of digging to try and
> find a fairly definitive longest spark ever from a TC.  The Robert Golka
> 'Project Tesla' system is reported (by Richard Quick) to have achieved 105
> feet maximum spark length.  It is not clear what input power he was running
> at the time, but it was in excess of 150kVA, which was the rated capacity of
> his generator.
> Unless anyone on list knows of anything longer I think this is probably the
> definitive record.
> For details check out tesla50.doc and tesla50.jpg in the pictures/misc/
> directory of the funeti tesla archives.
>  
> Regards
> Nick Field