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flat vs angled primary
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: flat vs angled primary
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:17:44 -0500
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From: richard hull [SMTP:rhull@richmond.infi.net]
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 1998 12:28 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: flat vs angled primary
At 07:10 AM 4/18/98 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: Mad Coiler [SMTP:tesla_coiler@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 10:53 AM
>To: tesla@pupman.com
>Subject: flat vs angled primary
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>Tesla List,
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> I was wondering why the helical primary caused much more safety gap
>firing. I thought of two possibilities. One was just because there was
>slight corona discharge between the pri and sec coils that could be
>placing an unwanted potential in the primary circuits. The other was
>that the helical coil was more tightly coupled to the secondary and that
>the secondary could then be inducing a higher current into the primary
>circuits by mutual coupling?
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>Comments are appreciated,
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>Tristan Stewart
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Your were tightly coupled with the cylindrical primary and far less coupled
with the flat spiral.
Richard Hull, TCBOR
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