Re: what is the cost for electricity to run a Tesla coil?

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Original poster: "Crow Leader by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla-at-lists.symmetric-dot-net>

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Subject: Re: what is the cost for electricity to run a Tesla coil?


 > Original poster: "Chris Roberts by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <quezacotl_14000000000000-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 > That can depend on a huge amount of things, most importantly being how
much
 > power a certain telsa coil uses. I have a mini coil that runs at a power
 > level of 190 VA (you can also think of VA as watts) that some large
 > lightbulbs laugh at. =D So you can imagine that it dosen't cost that much
 > to run. Most higher power Tesla coils run at about 4,000 -10,000 VA, but
 > when considering that dryers run at about 4,000VA, and a central air
 > conditioning unit runs at about 15,000VA, it's not as much as you'd think.

That sounds like a really large AC unit, bigger than I've seen for any home.
15kW at an EER of say 10 is still over 12 tons of cooling, and that's not
even a good effeciency for such a large unit.

KEN

 > Now the Biggg Coil which runs at 50,000VA is probably a slightly different
 > story. =D You can check out this link that shows you about how much a
 > typical appliance will cost if you run it for one full hour.
 >
<http://home.howstuffworks-dot-com/question272.htm>http://home.howstuffworks-dot-com
/question272.htm
 > Also keep in mind that most people don't run their tesla coil for anything
 > over an hour a month, so when viewed with airconditioning, it's pretty
 > cheap to run. Note that I said RUN, not build or maintain! (Stupid $250
 > capacitor...) =D
 >
 > Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Bernie Crews by way of Terry Fritz "
 >
 > what is the cost for electricity to run a Tesla coil?
 >
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 > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:13 PM
 > Subject: Biggg power & the Elecric company meet :{
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Kevin Eldredge by way of Terry Fritz
 > "
 >  >
 >  > All
 >  >
 >  > The Biggg Coil was running 49 kVA last weekend after a hot, hot
 >  > day. Several people were over to watch, then after one minute all power
 >  > went out, shop, house & security light. The security light is before
the
 >  > service entry wattmeter, oh-no. The primary fuse for our service drop
 >  > blew, no breakers blew anywhere. Wife very aggitated as Monk was! on TV
 > at
 >  > the time. I pushed the Coil into its hanger & called the Electric
 > company,
 >  > then waited for the worst. They came out & replaced the fuse, and were
 >  > confused no breakers blew. All power back on & all Ok. The lineman
thinks
 >  > it was the combunation of heat & high electric loads,
(airconditioner-ha
 >  > ha, it was the Coil) Scared to run the Coil anymore for fear of blowing
 >  > the fuse again, I went to the Electric Co-op & told my story to the
 > service
 >  > rep. He said "what on earth do you have that requires 50 kW?" I
explained
 >  > & showed a picture of the Tesla Coil. I listened to his response with
 >  > suprise, "It must have been too small a fuse, well get a bigger one on
 >  > it". He was very understanding, or liked Tesla Coils. Later that day he
 >  > called me and told me if the fuse blows again he will send a crew out &
 >  > replace our 25 kVA distribution transformer with ! a 50 kVA unit. :) :)
It
 >  > was like a dream. He says the transformer should be able to supply 100%
 >  > more than its rating for 10 minutes (it was a hot day). The next size
 >  > service entrance was a 400 amp service with current transformer
metering
 >  > and would be very expensive on my part, so I should see if his idea
works
 >  > first. Is he a nice guy or what?
 >  >
 >  > Coiling in Oklahoma.
 >  > Kevin E.
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >
 >
 >
 > -Chris
 >
 >
 >