Re: spark length vs toroid diameter

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• Subject: Re: spark length vs toroid diameter
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• Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 10:08:30 -0500
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Subject:      Re: spark length vs toroid diameter
      Date:   Tue, 13 May 1997 19:35:41 -0800
      From:   Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
        To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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richard hull wrote:

[snip]

>  I don't believe for one minute that a coil with X
> voltage as a resonant rise item could punch out as far with no top load
> at the same power as one with a large load.  The energy stored in the top
> terminal at any voltage does the punching.  This punching is always much
> farther into the surrounding air than the naked resonator rise would be
> capable of.


Given that, couldn't I increase the energy stored in the top terminal
simply by adding capacitance (in the form of a physical capacitor)
between the top terminal and ground?  Then the top terminal would
only have to be large enough to hold off the desired breakout voltage.


-GL

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