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Re: Q pumping and need for proper RF phasing. was: Comments onCorum



In a message dated 4/16/00 6:01:03 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> .unless you haven't enormously high
>  > break rate 10000 BPS or more which again isn't case
>  > for "normal" TC operation.Some Corums statements are
>  > very weird as concerns low of conservation of energy.
>  > 
>  > Regards,
>  > Boris

Boris, all,

And even if you did run the coil in a vacuum (no streamer loading) with
a super high breakrate, so that the bang energy from each bang could
perhaps build upon the previous bang (as the Corums and Tesla spoke
of doing), the phase problem (phase differences between subsequent
bangs) would remain, and prevent any build up I would think (because 
of cancellations).  The only way this could
possibly work at all (Q pumping) would be to cause the subsequent 
bangs to occur in (RF) phase, using some kind of precise electronic
timing control for the gap firing timing.  The Corums, and Tesla, both
seem to ignore this important RF phasing issue, since they both speak 
of the use of ordinary rotary gaps.  Perhaps they intended to use some
method to insure proper RF phasing, but did not mention it.  Or perhaps
Tesla did speak of the need for RF phasing, but I'm not aware of it?

Cheers, 
John Freau