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Re: Possible Record
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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Subject: Re: Possible Record
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From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:13:05 -0700
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Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
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In-Reply-To: <004f01bf91e9$2917db20$1eca48c2-at-fieldfamily>
Hi Nick,
From the description and judging from the 7.5 foot extra coil, I would
say the arc shown in the pickture is 40 feet max. From what I have heard, the
building at Wendover was not big enough to contain a 105 foot arc??
However, Richard Quick is an authority...
Cheers,
Terry
At 07:01 PM 03/19/2000 +0000, you wrote:
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> Hi All,
> after the avlaon idea came on list I did a bit of digging to try and
> find a fairly definitive longest spark ever from a TC. The Robert Golka
> 'Project Tesla' system is reported (by Richard Quick) to have achieved 105
> feet maximum spark length. It is not clear what input power he was running
> at the time, but it was in excess of 150kVA, which was the rated capacity of
> his generator.
> Unless anyone on list knows of anything longer I think this is probably the
> definitive record.
> For details check out tesla50.doc and tesla50.jpg in the pictures/misc/
> directory of the funeti tesla archives.
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> Regards
> Nick Field