Re: Not enough pimary inductance?

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• Subject: Re: Not enough pimary inductance?
• From: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 19:51:21 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

In a message dated 98-11-18 21:43:26 EST, you write:

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> I had heard the well circulated wive's tale that off axis L would waste
> energy.  This test graphically proved that it does not.
 
> The practical conclusion is that it IS technically acceptable to place a
> high quality air core tuning coil in series with the Tesla coil primary
> coil in order to achieve 'fine tuning' without throwing away hard won RF
> tank circuit energy!
 
> Real valuable knowledge gleaned by the actual doing. 
 
 
> Robert W. Stephens
  >>

Robert,

Nice test, and I agree.  I never bought that off-axis loss stuff anyway.
There's only meaningful loss if the coil is loaded.  After all, we're
dealing with an inductance.  There are still a few other myths out
there too I'm afraid   :(

John Freau

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