Re: nobody knows whos maggie at fla teslathon?

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Original poster: "Rikard Titus" <rikard_titus-at-hotmail-dot-com> 





>That is still 84% of what the empirical formula estimates. Besides, the
>empirical formula I think has been developed to quantify two-coil TCs, not
>magnifiers.


>I think to say that the device "isn't ...very efficient" is a bit unfair.
>How much better have other people achieved...or have you achieved?
I have never built a magnifier,and don't know how "efficient" it can be.
Tightly coupled and tuned magnifier with constructively solved problems of 
isolation in a driver coil and  corona leakage prevented elsewhere must  do 
even better than the formula predicts.A robust and high speed rotary is 
desirable.That's how I heard.Coiler who reported on his magnifier run it by 
his own description loosely coupled and  detuned -maybe more closer to 3/4 
wave resonance.
By the way,my big two coil TC used to generate 2 meter spark with about 2,2 
kVA input.



- Rikard Titus