Re: Possible Record

To: tesla@pupman.com
Subject: Re: Possible Record
From: FutureT@aol.com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla@uswest.net>)
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:15:36 -0700
Approved: twftesla@uswest.net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla@pupman.com@fixme

In a message dated 3/20/00 5:29:37 AM Pacific Standard Time, tesla@pupman.com 
writes:

> 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

I seem to remember that the Golka sparks were no more than 40 feet
or so.  They were definitely not anywhere around 100 feet long.  The
coil did not use a toroid or topload, so this held back the spark length.
The coil acheived it's spark length by brute force so to speak.  It was
rather inefficient.

Cheers,
John Freau