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Re: Capacitor "tap" in Primary?



Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
> 
> Antonio,
> The capacitively-coupled tesla coil you mentioned is an interesting idea, I
> have thought about that one myself -I don't know if it has ever been used to
> generate high voltages but I have visited a German website
> http://www.hcrs.at//KAPTRAFO.HTM which gives details of just such a
> capacitive transformer which does much the same thing except in reverse.
> Perhaps it is time to "let the experiment be done".
> Jolyon.

	From the description this sounded like a standard method for coupling
and impedance matching in RF circuits.  Properly designed it should work
as well as the coil type primary.

Ed