Re: Hi Q Quest (was sync TC latest resul

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Subject: Re: Hi Q Quest (was sync TC latest resul
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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 23:25:14 -0600
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From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent: 	Saturday, November 15, 1997 3:49 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Hi Q Quest (was sync TC latest resul

Benson_Barry wrote:


>      I wonder about something.  The toroid has
> isotropic capacity.  Since Xc = 1/(2 * pi * f * C) the toroid
> could be viewed as a reactive load that gets bigger as
> frequency gets higher.  In other words it would require
> more energy to charge the toroid to a given voltage as
> the frequency increased.  If you had a 100 kHz coil and
> a 200 kHz coil with the same size toroid then the 200 kHz
> coil would require more energy to get the same spark length
> at the same break rate to obey the law of conservation of energy.

[snip]

Actually, the energy would remain the same (E = 1/2 CV^2).  
Only the _reactive_ power in the secondary (kVAR's = V^2/Xc) 
would increase at the higher frequency.


-GL