Re: The Tabletop Tesla Coil Showdown - OFFICIAL RULES and WEBSITE

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Original poster: "tesla by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-paradise-dot-net.nz>

Greetings all
Greg really has a very interesting point here. We would stand to see much
more innovation and I suspect learn lots more if the rules allowed for broad
scope in the "magic beans" between the xfrmr and the coil. Just see what
Daniel Barrett is achieving with a single MOT by using innovation. In the
extreme we could see a 50' arc once every 60secs.

Whatever the outcome some debate on the rules to see what emerges before
construction begins seems a healthy process.

Ted L in NZ (where we only get to bang 100 times per sec in the current
rules)

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Subject: Re: The Tabletop Tesla Coil Showdown - OFFICIAL RULES and WEBSITE


> Original poster: "Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <s371034-at-student.uq.edu.au>
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> Why don't you let people use their imagination? If people get better
> sparks using rectified/voltage multipliers or magnifier systems, this
> will indicate that these methods are better, not only for TTTCs, but
> possibly for the rest of us with bigger coils. Why not simply set the
> voltage/current requirements of the initial power supply and see what
> people can do. This whole idea is getting silly. Why not let people
> try using a small tank cap with high BPS or a large tank cap with low
> BPS, and so on. Otherwise it comes down purely to losses in the
> primary/secondary circuits which those of us with more money are able
> to minimise because they can afford low loss coilforms etc. I want to
> see people's ingenuity win this competition. Let's just see who can
> do what with a 4kV, 20mA transformer, using their crazy ideas.
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> My two cents,
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> Greg.
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