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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:34:58 -0600
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From: Greg Leyh [SMTP:lod@pacbell.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 1998 4:45 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> >John,
> >
> >I know that we've been over this before, but you should really
> >_really_ look at the actual secondary current in an operating
> >TC secondary with an o-scope sometime. I think that you'll be
> >surprised at just how dead the coil is between spark gap firings!
> >
> >-GL
> >
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> I agree that you cannot see the static charge on the toroid with the
> scope. But why should this show up on the scope with capacitive coupling?
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> JC
I was not referring to msmts of the static charge at all,
but rather to the _current_ in the base of the secondary.
The top electrode can't store a static charge between gap
firings, since there is a rather stout DC path to ground.
Transformers must have current to support voltage.
-GL