Re: The worlds Largest Coil

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• Subject: Re: The worlds Largest Coil
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 21:50:45 -0700
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HI Chris,

> Original Poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
 
<snip>
> I'd like to Get Greg's help! And Bill Wysock's, and a herd of others!
> 
> The 13M is a 1/5th scale model of one of Tesla's own coils, so I think that 
> we could get prettey big before hitting the limit up of coil design. I'm 
> interested in hearing what the limits are, and why.
> 
> the 13M is massive, and works in the 10s of Khz.
> 
> chris B.

Electrum works around 30-something kHz if I remember rightly. If 
you visit LOD's website, I think the pros and cons of building ever 
larger coils is mentioned there in connection with the advanced 
lightning facility. Again if I remember it has something to do with 
running into the law of diminishing returns.

Regards,
Malcolm

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