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Re: Power versus Spark Length
From: richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 1997 7:46 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Power versus Spark Length
At 11:59 AM 7/24/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 1997 1:04 AM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: Power versus Spark Length
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>Thanks -- I agree that 'arc sculpting' is as much of an art as it is science.
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>The folly of trying to define a Figure of Merit for TC's is rapidly becoming
>apparent to me -- every coil designer will have their own measuremt standards,
>and achieving any consensus would be like trying to herd cats in a
thunderstorm.
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>At this point I would like to back away from my previous Figure of Merit and
>suggest the following:
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>GOODNESS = (Total Fun Integral) / (Breaker Rating of Wall Socket)
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>The fun integral could be measured, for instance, by integrating the output
>of an applause meter over a 10 second averaging period.
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>-GL
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Greg,
I am ready to go with your above standard with the codicil that the audience
be Tesla coil builder peers and not the common masses (too easily impressed
and inexperienced). With this proviso, I think you finally have a true
figure of merit based -soundly- (no pun intended) on available energy into
the system.
Richard Hull, TCBOR
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