Re: Power output

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Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alex-at-rices.myip-dot-org>


>	So.  How COULD the _power_ be measured?
>	Sort of need to do it pre breakout, which 
may be of
>	no interest.  What kind of 
instrumentation?
>	An interesting complement to the 
discussion of gap losses.
>
>	(best i can think of, post break out, is 
some sort of bizarre,
>	huge, calorimeter.  Not Practical...)
>
>	best
>	dwp

Maybee a better method might be to measure 
everything that is NOT going into the 
streamers, for a start you could measure gap 
losses calorifically without too much 
dificulty, you cam amke a pretty good 
guestimate of cap losses, a lot to peole have 
meen modelling e-fields so we should be able 
to figure out how much of the energy is being 
radiated. Then measure input power, taking 
into account transformer losses and presumably 
what is left must be useful power out. This 
would be much easier with a coil like thor 
that is heavily instrumented. Althought this 
would be rather laborious it is more practiacl 
than trying to masure output directly.

Just a (less than original) idea

Alex