Re: Secondary Base Current Magnitude ??

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>

A rough guess would be that your peak current would be Amps,
and the RMS current would be mAmps.  
A simple rough calculation:  Take the calculated energy of your 
primary capacitor and assign it to your secondary inductance.
The calculated current for this energy will approximate your 
peak secondary current.  
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-GL
www.lod-dot-org


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Original poster: <tesla-at-paradise-dot-net.nz>

Will shortly be able to measure the RF Base current in a 3kW 90kHz Coil.
Unsure of expected magnitude, anybody have a good guestimate. I know it
will
depend on the base coil Z but have no previous experience in estimating
it
but feel it will be in the 10 to 50 ohm range

Meter is 20A FSD, suspect will be a little insensistve for the job but
don't
want to kill this meter (The meter has been tested on 50Hz AC and
compared
with the DVM)
Tnx
Ted Linney in NZ