[TCML] Re: Coils at Maker Faire

[Greg Leyh]

Hi Dex,

I suppose it could be construed that one Tesla Coil transferring power 
to a second Tesla Coil dun got nothing to do with Tesla transformers.
Please disregard this thread.   GL


> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 04:27:22 -0700
> From: "Dex Dexter" <dexterlabs at dcemail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Re: Coils at Maker Faire
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla at pupman.com>
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> Interesting.But it got nothing to do with tesla transformers and you forgot to mention frequency of the transmission :)
> 
> Dex
> --- lod at pacbell.net wrote:
> 
> From: Greg Leyh <lod at pacbell.net>
> To: tesla at pupman.com
> Cc:
> Subject: [TCML] Re: Coils at Maker Faire
> Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 11:19:35 -0800
> 
> Hi Ed,
> 
> The 'Roadster' was thrown together in a weekend for Maker Faire; we 
> didn't quantify it's overall coupling and efficiency like we did the 
> experimental coils.  A wild guess would be on the order of ~10%.
> 
> Just stumbled across this video the other night.  This is without 
> question the state-of-the-art, at 82% overall efficiency: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O44WM1Q9H8
> 
> -GL