Original poster: Dave Leddon <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
I attended a most inspiring talk given by Greg Leyh last night in
San Francisco in which he showed a documentary video detailing the
construction of his Electrum coil (I sure would like to have a copy
of that, Greg) followed by a discussion of his plans to construct a
lightning laboratory in Nevada. He mentioned that there is a
physical limit to the size of a Tesla coil beyond which it cannot
produce an arc due to the frequency being too low to sustain a
continuous stream of ions. I believe he said that an ion would
extinguish before the next one could be generated. Does anyone have
an idea how to determine this minimum frequency?
Dave
Pleasanton, Ca