Re: Question about capacitors for coil

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Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Sounds like an interesting project.  I've often wondered how the 5:1 
coils work so well.  I now am convinced the energy is pumped into the 
base of the coil and it is propogated up like coil in a standing wave 
effect.  Seems to be the only explanation when a coil has a base very 
low to the concrete floor or has a large nst case under 
it.  Otherwise the mag field would be distorted or shorted by all the 
nearby metal.  In the case of the nst this is connected directly to 
ground which would make matters worse.

Dr. Resonance
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Subject: Re: Question about capacitors for coil


> Original poster: "Gerry  Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi DC,
>
> I've been thinking that the relationship of inductance to number of 
> turns squared has a lot of error in it for tall skinny coils.  I 
> believe the equation of:
>
> L = uo*N^2*Area / length
>
> assumes that the coupling from each turn on the solenoid is 100% 
> into all the other turns so that the total flux thru any one turn is 
> proportional to the number of turns.  For a very short and very fat 
> coil, I believe this relationship would be close.  For TC 
> secondaries with H/D ratio of say 5:1, there is a lot of error in 
> the number_of_turns squared relationship.  I bet the real exponent 
> is between 1 and 2 for typical TC geometries.  I might try to plot 
> this using JavaTC and see if there is an effective exponent given H/D.
>
> Gerry R.
>
> > Original poster: "resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Also, inductance varies as the square of the number of turns, so 
> > you want a lot of turns on the sec.