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Re: 100 kva coil



Richard,
          You wrote....

> The slightest and most gentle zephyer will decimate a Tesla arc!!!  
> Outdoor coils are always at the mercy of the wind.  Get your nice 
> perfomrer coil and take a large window fan and blow right at the toroid. 
>  I turned a three foot hot arc into an 8" streamer with such an 
> experiment.  Ions are the arc in a coil!!!!!

Have you thought about the using the fan to direct the ions to a 
collection electrode? Seems to me you might get a moderately 
efficient rectifier right there.

Malcolm