Re: Single vs Twin TCs

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 12/19/01 8:46:02 PM Central Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Bert and Steve,

My experiments now with my bipolar twin are producing a 
point to point discharge of 60 inches. That's an increase 
from the 43 inches I was getting from the horizontal bipolar.  
A good confirmation of the sq rt 2 value for the combined length.

Maybe the attractive E-field does increase the efficiency due to more 
of the energy going into the spark. The 1/8 steel rod I'm using for
breakout points on each toroid is shaping the E-field so as to 
almost totally eliminate the corona losses that were so severe
in the HBP.

Would you please explain how  the 0.707 (RMS?) voltage value
relates to energy conservation?

Happy day,
Ralph Zekelman



> So, let's assume that a
>  single coil TC outputs a streamer length "X" for a given input power
>  level. If we now apply the same power into a bipolar twin, it should be
>  distributed equally between the twin resonators. This implies that the
>  estimated spark length for EACH secondary would be about 0.707*X. The
>  combination should be a resonator-to-resonator spark length of 1.414*X
>  for the same input power