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Re: An Important Post.




From: 	richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: 	Sunday, August 10, 1997 1:38 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: An Important Post.

At 06:15 AM 8/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>From: 	Richard Wayne Wall[SMTP:rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, August 05, 1997 3:42 PM
>To: 	Tesla List
>Subject: 	Re: An Important Post.
>
>Malcolm wrote: 
>
>snip
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>>
>>Apparatus: A seven stage line was built as follows:
>>
>>     1.6mH    800uH    400uH    200uH    100uH    50uH     25uH
>> ----oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+---
>> In        |        |        |        |        |        |        | Out
>>          ---      ---      ---      ---      ---      ---      ---
>>          ---      ---      ---      ---      ---      ---      ---
>> Gnd       |        |        |        |        |        |        |
>> ----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---
>>         10pF      22pF     50pF     100pF    220pF    470pF   1000pF
>>
>>Caps are silvered mica jobs.  The inductors are airwound on bobbins 
>>for the popular FX2239 potcores.
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>snip
>
>Malcolm, 
>
>Placing matching inductors in the opposite bottom "slots" of the ground 
>line allows a truer representation of a transmission line.  The ground 
>line can be entirely eliminated.  This configuration has already been 
>done.  Eric Dollard did this with his "analog computer" representation 
>of a transmission line.  Only Eric used repeating units of the same 
>valued inductors and capacitors.  More like a real wound resonator.  
>Eric measured magnetic and ES components and their effects along the 
>various segments from one end to the other and contrasted them with 
>predicted transmission line values at quarter wave resonance.  There 
>was marked disagreement.  Orthodox transmission line theory assumes 
>transverse propagation of an EM wave.  Eric's model demonstrates 
>longitudnal transmission of an electrical wave.  Longitudnal 
>transmission - a theory near and dear to Nikola Tesla.
>
>RWW        
>
>
>
>All,

I have Dollards tape presentation of this and he does some amazing stuff.
He is a doer and alround experimentalist and poses some tought questions
which still have me giratin'

Richard Hull, TCBOR