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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