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Re: Variable Cap In Secondary?



Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi

Could be intereting but more praticable to use it in the primary curcuit.

Luc Benard

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Bill Parn by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<parn-at-starpower-dot-net>
> 
> I have seen variable tuned capacitors on E-Bay.  Think they are used for
> radio transmitting stuff, or whatever you can dream up.  If you could build
> one of those such to with stand the high voltage it would be a pretty cool
> way
> to do some fine tuning.  Maybe even motorize it so that you could fine tune
> on the fly.  I have never tried it, however have thought about wanting to do
> it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill
> 
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> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 7:24 PM
> Subject: Variable Cap In Secondary?
> 
> > Original poster: "Jake Draper by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
> <cybermecium2-at-home-dot-com>
> >
> > I was looking around on the net for information about Tesla Coils and I
> > stumbled accross an About-dot-com Physics Dictionary definition stating that
> it is
> > a device to create high voltage at high frequency. I already knew that,
> but it
> > says something about a variable capacitor with the secondary to tune it
> with
> > the primary. Has anybody ever seen or heard of anything like this? The URL
> is
> >
> <http://physics.about-dot-com/science/physics/library/dict/bldefteslacoil.htm>h
> > ttp://physics.about-dot-com/science/physics/library/dict/bldefteslacoil.htm
> >
> >
> >