Re: Lightning Generator

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• Subject: Re: Lightning Generator
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• Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 00:33:15 -0500
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Subject:  Re: Lightning Generator
  Date:   Tue, 6 May 1997 17:55:47 -0700 (PDT)
  From:   "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
    To:   tesla-at-pupman-dot-com


"Ed,
It is a single polarity, true... but what makes something RF is the
"apparent" frequency of a 1/2 cycle, which of course is a unipolar
definition, is it not? Some Tesla coil builders use a DC supply to
supply raw power to the tank circuit. The gap fires and we call it
RF. And to take it to its extreme, a Tesla coil operated in ONE SHOT
mode only gets a single half cycle of excitation. But it STILL
operates as a resonant RF circuit anyhow."
        That is a completely new definition to me!   I don't agree
but don't think the matter is worth pursuing, except to ask how
you define the frequency of a pulse?  Reciprocal of the period?
Frequency to me is associated, in this context, with harmonic
motion which doesn't apply.  Impulse excitation of a resonant
circuit is an entirely different matter.
Ed

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