Re: [TCML] 60/50Hz Tesla Coil?

[Phillip Slawinski <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

Resonance transformers have been done at the hobbyist level too.  Cameron
prince and David Rieben both have such a setup.  I have several photos of
such a setup on my flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pslawinski/tags/arczilla/

-Phillip Slawinski


On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 22:28, jimlux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> mddeming@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Remembering that f=1/[2pi*sqrt(LC)], if you want f to be 1/3000th of a
>> regular tesla coil, then the product LC must be 9,000,000 times bigger. Try
>> figuring out the physical sizes.
>> Matt D.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Greg Morris <gbmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: Tesla list <Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sun, Apr 18, 2010 2:46 pm
>> Subject: [TCML] 60/50Hz Tesla Coil?
>>
>>
>> So I just built my first solid state coil this year, and in thinking about
>> he nature of primary circuit driving, I got wondering, wouldn't it be
>> ossible to design a Tesla Coil in which the secondary resonated at (or
>> ear) 60/50Hz? The primary coil could be plugged directed into the wall
>> with
>> o need for any driving circuitry, save for maybe a reactor to limit the
>> urrent.
>>
>
>
> what you're really talking about is a classic resonance transformer.
> They're used in HV testing, and were used decades ago for very high energy
> X-rays (e.g. by Charlton, et al.) at the megavolt level.
>
> They're almost always done with iron cores (that's the only way you can get
> the inductance large enough and have the thing be a reasonable size).
>
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