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Re: self-C comments



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From huffman-at-fnal.govThu Aug 29 22:33:28 1996
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 08:22:27 -0500
> From: huffman <huffman-at-fnal.gov>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: self-C comments
> 
> >
> > Hello All,
> >         Richard Craven said:
> > <big snip>>
> > >Bearing in mind erudite comments from Richard Hull (basically all the
> > >strays due to buildings floors and the like), has anyone any comments on
> 
> > >conical constructions? I am not planning on building one, but it is an
> > >area of some interest.
> > <another big snip of interesting text>
> >         I have not built a conical coil, but have looked at it
> > mathematically.  I would expect it to be rather disappointing as a
> > conventional tesla coil.  The large conical base is where most of the
> > inductance of the coil is (and most of the wire length), and, as a
> result,
> <Snip>
> > Regards,
> > Mark S. Rzeszotarski, Ph.D.
> 
> What if the cone is inverted?
> Huffman

Huffman,

All the coupling would disappear!  You would be better off back at the 
cylinder construction.  The only advantage to a conical construction is 
that the base has all the inductance and can couple tightly to the 
primary.

Richard Hull, TCBOR