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On 10/13/18 2:52 AM, Teslalabor wrote:
Hi,
everybody is talking about "corona losses" in the primary circuit of the
teslacoil when using higher voltages. But this is fully neglible, hey we
are talking about kA-curents and charging curents of hundreds of mA's
coming out of big thransformers - little corona loss is some
Microamperes, maybe 1mA! This absolutely doesn't matter in a Tesla
primary circuit. Of course in Van de Graaff or cockroft walton
generators every µA counts and thats why they use big spheres ect. So
if you have a suitable capacitor which can withstand the higher
voltages, there is no problem even with higher voltages.
Regards,
Stefan
I don't know that corona "losses" are the problem so much as the fact
that if you have corona, you also likely are close to having flashovers,
and an arc driven by a multi kVA transformer can do a lot of damage quickly.