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Re: Slow Wave Helical Resonator Experiment
At 10:29 PM 12/8/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>Terry,
>
>I've never seen it posted on the list, but the Corums used a 24 volt
>dc source and and a Ford spark coil buzzer was used as a spark gap.
>An oscilloscope was connected directly across the terminating ball to
>ground and the voltage waveform recorded is the one you refered to that
>shows the 10 times voltage rise.
>
>I spoke to Malcolm about this some time ago, and he said he was
>familiar with this buzzer technique. Maybe this technique led to false
>results in the Corums tests.
Was the Ford spark coil buzzer used with an air-core Tesla primary &
secondary? I ask because ferromagnetic materials exhibit dispersion
characteristics. This characteristic was used for FM chirp-to-impulse delay
lines for radar pulsers.
>> Subject: Slow Wave Helical Resonator Experiment
>> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>
>>... In that paper, they describe a
>> phenomena where the voltage on the secondary rises by standing waves in
>the
>> secondary after the primary spark goes out. They describe how the Tesla
>> coil behaves as a "velocity inhibited quarter wave resonator". In this
>> paper they describe the secondary voltage increasing to very high values
>> after the primary spark has gone out. Apparently over 10 times what it
>> was during the ring-up period.