Re: NEW Direct Coupled Tesla Circuit - Looks promising

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Original poster: David Speck <dave-at-davidspeckmd-dot-org> 

Dan,
One problem with this arrangement as I see it is that when the gap is 
conducting, there is a direct path from the top of your 14.4 kV input power 
transformer secondary to the discharge of the Tesla secondary.

Would this not predispose you to significant power arcing?   Seems like an 
inadvertent contact with the output discharge would be lethal.

Would the system work as well with the Tesla secondary connected to ground 
instead of the top of the Tesla primary?

Dave

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
>
>A friend of mine and myself came up with a new directly coupled tesla
>circuit
>I've enclosed a sketch of this topology.  Any comments are appreciated.
>
>http://users.snip-dot-net/~liche/directtesla01.jpg