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Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 01:13:12 -0500
From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 08:41:28 -0600 (MDT)
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> Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
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> Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:42:37 -0600
> From: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com
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> Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
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> At 10:18 PM 7/14/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-headwaters-dot-com>
> >To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> >Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
> >
> SNIP>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
> >
> >John,
> >
> >I hope you can be as suprised as I was when I made this physical test.
> Take an
> >average TC that can produce a solid 8 foot discharge, even on holidays. Take a
> >straight piece of copper wire, aluminum , steel or even a salty piss trail
> on an
> >otherwise insulating rug that equals the let's say 8 foot output spark length.
> >Electrically connect this conductor to your topload and suspend this piece of
> >straight outwardsbound conductor radially away from the topload of your coil
> >discharge terminal through the help of insulating nylon fishing line, or
> >plastic barrels. With an o-scope and signal generator measure the
> secondary Fo
> >of the HV resonator before and after the introduction of this electrically
> isolated
> >streamer length wire representation model!
> >
> >Hint: If the software program you rely upon doesn't anticipate this
> >experiment I suggest you test this effect in real hardware and find a
> >way to include it's variability into your software. It is rather
> >significant!!!!
> >
> >I suggest that you will discover that a long streamer causes a great
> >deal more than _insignificant_ tuning and loading effect upon a
> >non-sparking Tesla coil.
> >
> >Richard Hull and many others of us with dirty hands now know this well from
> >the doing.
> >
> >Robert W. Stephens
>
>
>
> A very interesting post and idea!!!! My models don't do this type of load
> effect but they probably should! I hope it can be modeled as a lumped
> parameter :-))
>
> Terry Fritz
>
Terry, All,
This physical model could probably be made more accurate by breaking
up the wire I suggest projecting from the topload by introducing
carbon resistors at intervals along its length. An actual streamer
has a complex time varying impedance characteristic which certainly
does not hover around a fraction of an ohm. When I was inspired to
try this experiment I just grabbed a stiff piece of 3/8th's inch aluminum
hardline coax that was handy and draped it between the topload and a piece of
PVC pipe at the far end. I was really suprised to see my system Fo drop
from mid 90's kHz about a full 10 kHz!
Robert W. Stephens
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