Re: What about test equipment and stuff?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi,

The question of who has (or had) the "biggest" coil is an old one.  Bill 
Wysocks Model 13 has "at least" twice the power and spark length of Tesla's 
great Colorado Springs machine.  It holds the generally recognized record 
for TC spark length at 55 feet.

http://www.ttr-dot-com/model13m.html

Robert Golka is reported to have pumped almost 1 million watts into his 
Utah coil but never got the expected spark lengths for such an extreme 
input power.

http://home1.gte-dot-net/res07cmo/hv/golka/golka.htm

Greg Lehy's Electrum is also larger than Tesla's CS coil.

http://www.lod-dot-org/electrum.html

Of course, all these modern 100kW+ coils have very modern materials, parts, 
and construction that simply were not available to Tesla in 1899.  If they 
had been....

Cheers,

         Terry

At 02:16 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 2/6/03 1:18:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
>Yes, it is all fascinating, but Tesla doesn't hold the record for the
>most powerful TC.  Tesla's longest sparks were about 35 feet long,
>despite claims by certain authors, etc.  When Tesla said his sparks
>were longer than that, he was refering to the the whole head of sparks
>from one side to the other and containing all the twists and bends, etc.
>
>Yes, Tesla was a genius indeed to have accomplished what he did.
>
>John
>
>
>>I stand corrected. But, doesn't he still hold the record for the most
>>powerful TC? And considering the materials that he had to work with and the
>>fact that he couldn't buy o-scopes and stuff at that time. I would think
>>that with the technology that he had to work with at that time period; what
>>he accomplished was totally awesome.  I am fascinated by all of it.
>>
>>
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