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Re: Is 0.5*C*V*V vaild? (Was Output Voltages and Voltage/Length) (fwd)



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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:31:18 +0000
From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Is 0.5*C*V*V vaild?  (Was Output Voltages and  Voltage/Length)

John H. Couture wrote:


>   You did not mention input energy. If you are saying that increasing the
> number of breaks will increase the spark length without increasing the input
> energy you are getting into the realm of over unity energy gain. An
> increasing spark length can indicate more energy consumed by the load
> requiring more input energy if there are no other changes.

Have you ever built a coil and played around with the break rate?


-GL