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Re: Gap Dwell Times (formerly: Beating S



On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Tesla List wrote:

> There was (maybe still is?) an experiment at the University of Maryland
> called the Dragon that used a single pulse Tesla coil (3 megavolt in oil)
> for its power source.  The designer was Alex Shipman.  He wrote an
> article about the design.  In the article he performed calculations
> to optimize coupling for maximum energy transfer in minimum
> number of cycles.  He found that if the coupling were adjusted
> just right then all of the energy from the primary could be
> transfered to the secondary in less than three cycles.

Do you remember what the article was in?  I would be interested in seeing
a copy of it.

Thanks,

Steve.