Re: "Cheating" was Re: The Tabletop Tesla Coil Showdown

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>

When the rules are published, they will have enough detail to make it clear
that such cheating is not allowed, and they will stress that the INTENT of
the rules must be followed, should I not cover every contingency.  This is
a coil efficiency competition, not a loophole finding competition.

Gary Lau
MA, USA


>Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" ><daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
>
>>>>>>>Cool - my turn now.  So I guess I could overdrive my transformer to
>twice the voltage and as
>long as the secondary "nameplate" voltage * measured short circuit current
><200VA I should be alright, right??

>>The second category will permit any NST voltage/current combination as long
>>as the measured secondary short circuit current times faceplate secondary
>>voltage does not exceed 200 VA, same as a hopped-up 4/20 (4/50) NST.