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Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
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To: tesla@pupman.com
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Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary? (fwd)
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From: Tesla List <mod1@pupman.com>
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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:44:52 -0600 (MDT)
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Approved: mod1@pupman.com
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 23:33:47 -0500
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@aquila.com>
To: Tesla List <tesla@pupman.com>
Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary?
Tesla List wrote:
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> From: Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz [SMTP:acmq@compuland.com.br]
> Sent: Friday, July 03, 1998 12:47 AM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: How to rise the secondary?
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> John H. Couture wrote:
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> > 1. Doesn't changing the coupling (K) only change the time of energy
> > transfer for a tuned TC system regardless of frequency? For example with K =
> > .20 the energy will transfer for all coils and operating frequency:
> > Transfer time = 1/K = 1/.20 = 5 half cycles.
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> Correct, but with 5 half cycles the secondary voltage is zero, not maximum.
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However, this still corresponds to a point of maximum energy transfer to
the secondary LC system, it's just that it's now stored as 0.5LsIs^2
instead of 0.5*CsVs^2... and will be an output voltage peak 1/4 cycle
later (after the main gap has hopefully quenched).
-- Bert --