Re: Secondary Construction

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Subject: Re: Secondary Construction
From: James Peters <jpeters-at-enterprise.powerup-dot-com.au>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:52:57 +1000
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On Wed, 4 Oct 1995 tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com wrote:

> >From MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz Wed Oct  4 14:43 MDT 1995
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> From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> To: tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com
> Date:          Thu, 5 Oct 1995 09:31:34 +1200
> Subject:       Re: Secondary Construction
> 
> Hi Stan...
> > > > 
> MW> > Point taken, but...
> MW> > Can anyone explain why sparks would prefer to travel down the 
> MW> >inside of the former (winding) rather than the outside ?
> > > 
> SH> thppppppth! Oh, sorry, had to dust off some neurons. I'd guess 
> SH> that the magnetic flux density tends to be greater inside the 
> SH> secondary, and without the added dielectric of the end caps, arc 
> SH> form more easily.
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I am of course aware of the behaviour of
> plasmas in magnetic fields (a la Tokamaks, solar prominences, auroras
> etc.). The reason I ask is because there is a well known photograph
> of one of the MASTER's large coils (in a building) clearly throwing
> sparks twice its height, yet without a plastic former, no sparks in-
> ternally. The coil is clearly effectively suspended in air.
> 
> Malcolm
>  
> 
> 

Yes Malcolm, thats a good point! Tesla threw sparks much bigger than the 
secondary on his coils and these were open wood forms! Might have 
something to do with the space winding?

Greg