Re: The Freau number...

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 19 Jun 2005, at 21:30, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 6/19/05 6:26:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> BTW - Bill Lemieux says that commercial Tesla coils made in Boulder
> (~5400 feet above sea level) perform remarkably BETTER at LOWER
> altitudes!!  There was a problem that they would arc much further than
> expected when delivered to sea level customers...
>
>      Just throwing out a guess-
>
>      These commercial coils are disruptive coils? Perhaps the spark
>      gaps
> quench better in the denser air, offsetting any gain that the thinner
> air might have afforded the secondary streamers themselves?
>      If so, good thing it's a lot easier to pressurize a spark gap
>      than to
> de-pressurize an entire coil...
>
> -Phil LaBudde

For a given coil I think breakout would require a higher voltage and
hence higher toroid energy at sea level also. Y-N?

Malcolm