Re: 12 MV 100 years ago

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Original poster: "Zagarus Rashkae by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <arbitrarily_random-at-yahoo-dot-com>

 > On the subject of power useage,
 >     How much was actually availabe to be used by
 > Tesla? I
 > recall in one of the books I read (Man out of time
 > perhaps?
 > It's been awhile.. ) that he managed to shut down
 > the power
 > plant that was providing power to his colorado
 > springs
 > laboratory by pulling too much from the mains.. (Or
 > was it
 > kickback through the feed lines? I honestly can't
 > remember.. )
 >
I believe he drew too much power. It set the generator
windings on fire. I've heard other stories about the
RF feedback being a multiple of the generator
windings' natural resonant frequency, but I can't be
sure. The first sounds more credible.

Chris Lu

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