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Re: Primary Coil (and cap?) INSIDE Secondary Coil
Tesla List wrote:
> I had this thought the other day. Since capacitiors are usually
rolled.
> Would it be possible to use a capacitor as both the primary capacitor and
> primary inductor in one unit? In other words, the spiral plates of the cap
> would also serve as a spiral primary inductor? Or, would the fields always
> canecl the effect?? such a unit would be really neat for the situations
> where you would insert the primary inside the secondary.
>
> My gut feel is that the physics would not allow such a machine to work,
> but....
There was at some time research on this special element. I remember
seing a paper in an old IEEE journal, probably from the 1950's.
A rolled capacitor with one terminal at the outer end and the other
at the inner end will really behave much as a series LC tank, or
more exactly as a weird transmission line, and may be usable as
a primary in a Tesla circuit. An interesting idea that someone could
try.
Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz