Re: Help with analyzation theory

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Original poster: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>

I go through the number crunching on my:

http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/design.pdf

page. Not much in the way of explanation, but you can
probably follow if you have a basic understanding.

Adam

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: "Adam R." <arabraxas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I've been working with coils for awhile now, but am
> still just a
> beginner's student in EE and am working to
> understand the circuit of
> the coil, but am running into some bumps in the road
> so I am
> wondering if someone can point me in the right
> direction. For
> brevity's sake, I won't rattle off too much off what
> I'm stuck on.
> I'm just asking the "whys?" of what is going on.
>
> First, I don't quite understand how the
> i(t)=C(dv/dt) can get so high
> (ie hundreds of amps). I also don't fully understand
> the nature of
> the 60hz to high frequency tank circuit.
>
> What's throwing me off is how I'm looking at the
> circuit in the
> manner of an LC, the cap/indu reactance, and etc.,
> I'm trying to
> piece things together, but they don't seem to fit,
> especially when I
> add the spark gap. The math equations keep forming
> odd numbers, such
> as 13269 amps! I'm not trying derive everything, but
> just again, see
> how things (mathematically) fit together.
>
> I don't want the theory "spoon fed" to me, just if
> someone could
> start pointing me in the right direction as to what
> I should
> research. Thanks in advance!
>
>
>