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Re: HV at very LOW freq. Tesla Coil




From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 17, 1997 5:34 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: HV at very LOW freq. Tesla Coil

Jean-Marc Patten wrote:


> > How low a frequency? How big a coil you willing to make??
> > -- Bert --
> > 
> well i have about 10 oil burner xformers at 10Kv -at-10Ma but i dont think
> they will have the juice to do the job. But to answer your question about
> 10cps <10Hz>. I have looked all over the net for info but everyone is High
> voltage high freq.
> thank you for responding


Could you possibly downgrade the resonant frequency to 60Hz?  The logistics
would then be greatly simplified, since standard 60Hz magnetics and the power
grid could get you to about 3 MVAC RMS, then LC resonant rise would take you
the rest of the way... <:^)


-GL