Original poster: "Daniel Barrett by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dbarrett1-at-austin.rr-dot-com>
 > although the coronatron uses a lot of power, I didn't think the sparks
 > were particularly long because it operates on DC which gives a much
 > shorter spark length for a given input power.
     Huh? Why would DC give a shorter aprk length per input power?
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