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Subject: PRIMARY??
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:30:06 -0600
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From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM@directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 1998 2:18 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: PRIMARY??
Hi Chris,
> From: Zuma [SMTP:mwise@sosis.com]
> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 1998 9:51 PM
> To: tesla@pupman.com
> Subject: PRIMARY??
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> I was sitting here looking through my e-mail from the list and thought
> of a question about the primary. I have heard before to aleast leave an
> few extra turns for tuning purposes, but can there be to many turns?
> What I mean is that if you have a coil that tunes in at say 5 turns and
> your primary consists of 15 turns. Will having these 10 extra turns be
> lossy to the coil? It in a way seems like it might because it isn't
> concentrating to only those 5 turns. Take for instance this, your
> primary is tapped at turn 5, regardless of this tap I am assuming there
> is voltage still at the outer turn, so wouldn't this be some sort of a
> loss to the amount of energy being transfered? Is this a valid
> assumption?
>
> Chris Jones
The energy it takes to induce a voltage across a short open circuited
piece of copper is minute beside what the gap will be chewing up.
Malcolm