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Re: NST Resonant Charging?



Hello Ed:
        With regard to resonant charging, you said:
>	Please explain that remark.  Around here the maximum attainable
>voltage, assuming no breakdown in either the gap, transformer, or
>capacitor is the transformer Q at sixty cycles times the open-circuit
>voltage, and I've satisfied myself to that by operating a transformer at
>low voltage.  The Q is certainly greater than pi.
        Yes, the maximum is Q times the input voltage.  However, I assume
you want to dump that energy periodically.  For maximum charging efficiency,
one should dump the energy near the end of each half cycle (synchronize the
firing to the charging).
Mark S. Rzeszotarski, Ph.D.