Re: 2 questions on resonance

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• Subject: Re: 2 questions on resonance
• From: "Reinhard Walter Buchner" <rw.buchner-at-verbund-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 18:28:36 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hi Ed,

I forgot to add this to my "And more NST stuff" mail.
Sorry about that.


>In the "good old days of spark transmitters" it was quite common to use
>the 60 Hz resonance of the primary circuit to control the discharge
>rate.  Thordarson (and probably others) made special transformers with
>an adjustable shunt between primary and secondary to permit adjustment
>of the leakage reactance in order to get resonance.  I have such a
>transformer (1 kW) which I intend to work with some day.  I have never
>read a good description on how the variable shunt was used, but suspect
>that it was adjusted for "maximum good" with either fixed or, much more
>commonly, rotary gaps.  Sounds as if Reinhardt (sp???) has descibed
>German NST's with a very similar arrangement.


Interesting. Could you make an ASCII drawing of how this transformer
is built? Is it similar to my NST construction?

Coiler greets from germany,
Reinhard

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