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Re: [TCML] 60/50Hz Tesla Coil?



mddeming@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hi Greg,

Remembering that f=1/[2pi*sqrt(LC)], if you want f to be 1/3000th of a regular tesla coil, then the product LC must be 9,000,000 times bigger. Try figuring out the physical sizes.
Matt D.




-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Morris <gbmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sun, Apr 18, 2010 2:46 pm
Subject: [TCML] 60/50Hz Tesla Coil?


So I just built my first solid state coil this year, and in thinking about
he nature of primary circuit driving, I got wondering, wouldn't it be
ossible to design a Tesla Coil in which the secondary resonated at (or
ear) 60/50Hz? The primary coil could be plugged directed into the wall with
o need for any driving circuitry, save for maybe a reactor to limit the
urrent.


what you're really talking about is a classic resonance transformer. They're used in HV testing, and were used decades ago for very high energy X-rays (e.g. by Charlton, et al.) at the megavolt level.

They're almost always done with iron cores (that's the only way you can get the inductance large enough and have the thing be a reasonable size).
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