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RE: Balancing L/C Sizes



Original poster: "terry oxandale by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <toxandale-at-cei-dot-net>

A very same question I have pondered myself. Anyone??????

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Subject: Balancing L/C Sizes

Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

 Hi All!
        A short while ago, there was a very good explanation of LC
oscillation posted using the analogy of pouring water from one container
(electrical field in capacitor) to another container (magnetic field in
coil)
and back again. It was mentioned that you would, of course, not want to use
a
bucket and a thimble.
This started me thinking (danger, danger) that just as there is an
appropriate size capacitor to store a given amount of energy, 0.5CV^2, there
should also be an appropriate size coil such that the field of the coil
could
absorb the energy being transferred to it from the cap, so as not to empty
the "bucket" into the "thimble". While the primary coil is more of a
transfer
device, (funnel) than bucket, it seems that there must be some sort of
min/Max size constraint, but I can't recall any discussion of an energy
storage equation for a coil. Likewise, the secondary can be looked at as a
device to "funnel" charge into the topload and ultimately to the streamers.
It seems to me that there should be some sort of calculable optimal range of
sizes out of the infinite combinations of L & C for any frequency. It is
somewhat hinted at in the "rules of thumb" about power, coil size, and
topload size, but I can't seem to find anything definitive. Perhaps some of
the theoreticians could elucidate, or a historian could point me to a thread
I missed?

Seeking light and lightning in the hills,

Matt D.