Re: which setup produces longest sparks?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/4/03 8:31:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Simonas,

In work I've done, for a given input power, low bps--large bang, has
outperformed high bps--small bang size.  However at a low bps,
the toroid must be rather large to handle the large bang size.
With high bps-- small bang, the sparks will grow.... in other words
voltage is not the only key in a TC.  TC spark length seems to
depend more on the total input power rather than the output
voltage alone.

I have some info at my website at:

   http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html

John


>Original poster: "Simonas by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><rasim-at-takas.lt>
>
>hiall!
>
>I have two options selecting primary capacitor value, maybe The List could
>help me choose  the best.
>Info:
>constant setup:
>DC tesla coil, ARSG, 9000VA, primary voltage ~10kV, with inductive resonant
>charging - 20kV. Secondary coil is 80mH, capacitance 25pF, toroid
>capacitance 63pF, resonant frequency 60kHz.
>
>Now the hard part:
>
>setup1: primary capacitor 0.5uF, primary inductance 14uH, 95 BPS.
>
>OR
>
>setup2: primary capacitor 0.2uF, primary inductance 35uH, 240 BPS
>
>in both setups there's maximum power consumption, but which one would
>produce longest arcs??? according to simple theory the one with bigest
>primary capacitance should produce highest voltage on toroid and thus arc
>length.. is it so in practice???
>
>Simonas
>