Re: 60 vs. 30 ma

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: 60 vs. 30 ma
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 08:24:38 -0500
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From: 	Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: 	Wednesday, June 18, 1997 7:29 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: 60 vs. 30 ma

Wednesday, June 18, 1997 8:10 AM Gary Lau
<lau-at-hdecad.ENET.dec-dot-com> wrote;

> >Actually you do have to increase the capacitor size if you increase 
> >the charging current otherwise you will not be using the additional
> >current. Realize of course this assumes that you were already using 
> >the largest practical size capacitor for the charging current. The 
> >capacitor is really the controlling factor as to how much power we 
> >can cram into a given Tesla coil.
> 
> 
> It would seem to me that if one switches to a transformer with
> twice the current rating, using the same capacitor, that the
> capacitor would simply charge up to the spark gap voltage twice
> as fast.

You can make all the current in the world available to a capacitor 
and it is NOT going to charge any faster! To make a capacitor charge
faster you have to increase the applied voltage! Try and remember the
old analogies to clearify; current is the quantity of electrons and
voltage is the pressure the electrons are under. How any electrons 
you have available wont effect how fast a capacitor charges, but the 
amount of pressure (voltage) they are under will! If you keep the 
applied voltage the same but double the available current, you will
have to double the capacitance to use that available current.

                               Sincerely

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