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Re: In need of SERIOUS power?



Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

This was not posted to the Tesla list.

This thread was sort of off-topic to begin with.

BTW - Do you know my brother Gary Fritz who works with GE turbine controls?

Cheers,

         Terry


At 11:07 AM 6/24/2003 +0000, Paul Marshall wrote:
>Jim,
>  I work for GE Gas turbine division, we have a 60,000 hp turbine that 
> weighs only 11,000 lbs. It can drive a 40 megawatt generator..
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>Paul S. Marshall
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>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>Subject: Re: In need of SERIOUS power?
>>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:51:38 -0600
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>>Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
>><jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>>Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:07 PM
>>Subject: Re: In need of SERIOUS power?
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>> > Original poster: "Ben McMillen by way of Terry Fritz
>><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
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>> > Hi all,
>> >     I work for GE Transportation Systems and we make diesel
>> > engines for locomotives. I thought WE had huge engines
>> > until now.. ;) Right now our biggest engine only produces
>> > 6250HP.. However, all that power is fed into a HUGE
>> > alternator.. I've often wondered just how big of a coil I
>> > could run with one.. ;)
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>>6250 HP  is about 4660 kW.. Applying the 1.7*sqrt(watts) equation I get a
>>spark length of about 3670 inches, or around 300 feet...
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>>Looking at some other very high powered coils, I see that the max spark
>>length is typically around 3 times the height of the coil, so you'd need a
>>100 foot high coil.  Winding this at a 5:1 aspect ratio, it would be about
>>20 feet in diameter...
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>>Actually, this is in the size range of Greg Leyh's ALF..and as I recall that
>>was 5 MW?
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