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Re: The Freau number...



Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx

In a message dated 6/19/05 6:26:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
BTW - Bill Lemieux says that commercial Tesla coils made in Boulder (~5400
feet above sea level) perform remarkably BETTER at LOWER altitudes!! There
was a problem that they would arc much further than expected when delivered
to sea level customers...


    Just throwing out a guess-

These commercial coils are disruptive coils? Perhaps the spark gaps quench better in the denser air, offsetting any gain that the thinner air might have afforded the secondary streamers themselves?
If so, good thing it's a lot easier to pressurize a spark gap than to de-pressurize an entire coil...


-Phil LaBudde