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High Voltage Test Equipment




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From:  Homer Lea [SMTP:HomerLea-at-aol-dot-com]
Sent:  Wednesday, March 11, 1998 8:31 AM
To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject:  Re: High Voltage Test Equipment

In a message dated 98-03-11 00:39:00 EST, you write:

>   Have you done the calcs for your voltage divider?
>  
>    A one microamp load on a small 100 KV coil will drop the sec voltage to a
>  very small amount and make the measurement useless. The calcs are:
   
John
I did some calcs. to see that I would draw just a few ua. I don't see how  1
ua can kill the coil output. Even 20 ua with a 5000 megohm divider just draws
only (I^2)(R)=  2 watts of power at peak voltage??????? I thought if we put in
500watts we would get out 100? watts or so.

jim