Pwr vs. Arc [was: In need of SERIOUS power?]

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Original poster: "Greg Leyh by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>

That's actually in the ballpark of the present ALF design set.
Right now, the ALF secondaries are set at 720cm dia x 2950cm length
[about 24' x 96'].  The overall structure height is 3500cm [115'].
The total site power figure has crept up to just under 6000kW.
240' point-point is the base goal, 300' is the stretch goal.


>Original poster: "Jim Lux <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
> > Original poster: "Ben McMillen <spoonman534-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> >     I work for GE Transportation Systems and we make diesel
> > engines for locomotives. I thought WE had huge engines
> > until now.. ;) Right now our biggest engine only produces
> > 6250HP.. However, all that power is fed into a HUGE
> > alternator.. I've often wondered just how big of a coil I
> > could run with one.. ;)
>
>
>6250 HP  is about 4660 kW.. Applying the 1.7*sqrt(watts) equation I get a
>spark length of about 3670 inches, or around 300 feet...
>
>
>Looking at some other very high powered coils, I see that the max spark
>length is typically around 3 times the height of the coil, so you'd need a
>100 foot high coil.  Winding this at a 5:1 aspect ratio, it would be about
>20 feet in diameter...
>
>
>Actually, this is in the size range of Greg Leyh's ALF..and as I recall that
>was 5 MW?