Re: Tesla coil applications

["Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Marco Denicolai" <Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs.fi>

> I have got/read several papers about use of Tesla coils for:
> 
> - testing of dielectric materials
> - testing of insulators for HV transformers (discrete components made of
> porcelain, etc.)
> - testing of vacuum goodness (lamps, glass fillings, etc.)
> - test of HV circuit breakers

I think that very probably these systems would not be made today 
with capacitor-discharge, spark gap systems. There is no need of
great power, and a fully electronic system is more controllable.
 
> Here some text clipped from a paper I wrote:

These are the high energy pulse generators that I mentioned. Do you
have the complete references?

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz