Energy and Power

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• Subject: Energy and Power
• From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
• Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:06:31 -0500
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From:  Jim Lux [SMTP:jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net]
Sent:  Friday, April 17, 1998 10:07 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Energy and Power

 
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> From:  ESchulz531 [SMTP:ESchulz531-at-aol-dot-com]
> Sent:  Thursday, April 16, 1998 7:32 PM
> To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject:  Energy and Power
> 
> 	Power is energy per time, so tesla coils do magnify power but not
energy.
> Example a tesla coil using a 20 j cap running at 100khz, assuming all the
> energy is transferred in the first secondary voltage rise will put out
2000 kJ
> 's during a 0.01 ms period.

You mean, of course, 2000 kW, not kJ. Watts = energy/time 20/1e-5 = 2e6.
And, if that coil fires every 8.3 msec (120 Hz), the input power will be
20j/8.3E-3 or about 2400 Watts.

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