Re: Calculating streamer breakout of top-loads

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Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 9/8/03 8:02:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>I'm sorry, I meant 3000VA instead of watts and this is probably before
>ballast for the PT.  I have no experience with PT and yes there is little
>resistive loss and little leakage flux but there is still the current
>limiting ballast.
>
>Gerry R


Gerry, Rik,

Yes, my formula uses the input power into the Tesla coil.  This includes
the power through the input variac, ballast, and transformer.  I often
call this "wallplug watts", meaning the power right out of the wallplug
and going into the entire Tesla coil and variac.  I intended the formula
to use true watts, but folks often use VA instead.  This works
reasonaby well if the power factor is reasonable.

A google search for "John Freau" will bring up some hits for my
website.

My site is at:

   <http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html>http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html

Regards,
John