RE: Tesla Coiling / High Voltage Research Topics

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau-at-hp-dot-com> 

One thing on my to-do list is to determine the capacitor size that will
pull the highest power from an NST.  Years ago it was assumed to be the
mains-resonant value, and it now appears that an LTR value is best, but
exactly how much LTR is unclear.  I had performed some simulations, but
I think these may be flawed in that they don't take into account shunt
saturation.

What I was planning was to replace the primary with a series bank of
three tubular 500W halogen lamps (suitable for a 15/60 NST), as a dummy
load.  This way you don't have to worry about maintaining pri-sec
resonance, or about streamers lapping at you.  The power throughput may
be accurately determined with a photo sensor, seeing how bright the
lamps are.  Plot lamp brightness against cap size and gap width.

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA


Original poster: dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com

Just curious to get a list of some of the open high voltage / tesla coil
research topics that we would like to see explored etc...

Instead of just building some coils for fun, I'd like to narrow in on a
particular problem / topic and do some serious research on it.
However, I realize that quite of bit of research has already been done
within the realm of tesla coil systems, so i am asking the group
if anyone knows of any particular areas which may be research worthy and
hasn't been done to death already.

Thanks

Dan