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Re: Playing around
At 10:25 PM 7/17/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>>> Subject: Playing around
>>Subject: Re: Playing around
>>> Subject: Playing around
>
>From rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-netWed Jul 17 22:22:26 1996
>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 21:20:20 -0500
>From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-net>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Playing around
>
>>>> Subject: Playing around
>>
>>>From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comTue Jul 16 22:08:32 1996
>>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:27:49 -0700
>>From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
>>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>Subject: Re: Playing around
>>
>>Tesla List wrote:
>>>
>>> >From chadwick-at-flash-dot-netMon Jul 15 22:53:21 1996
>>> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 23:07:08 -0500
>>> From: "Chad A. Madison" <chadwick-at-flash-dot-net>
>>> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>>> Subject: Playing around
>>>
>>> Well, just for hee hee's and ha ha's I decided to play with a 450 watt coil
>>> this afternoon. Instead of your standard issue series spark gap, I strapped
>>> a Jacob's Ladder to it and took the shunt cap off. Output with just the
>>> ladder was almost exactly the same (at the peak of the ladder) as with the
>>> .0056uf 40kvdc cap and 6-gap series spark gap.
>>>
>>> Has Chad discovered some profound new way to completely eliminate the need
>>> for a shunted cap? Try it and see what results you encounter.
>>
>>> Perhaps, in my somewhat inebriated state (four day vacation started today),
>>> I bore witness to an illusion. But my brother-in-law was there too, and he
>>> agreed with me totally.
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>>> Chad Alan Madison \ / \
>>> BSEE Undergraduate Student \ / \ /
>>> University of Texas at Austin \ / //
>>> Member: Tesla Coil Society \/ \/
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>>Chad,
>
>>There is nothing striking about your revelation. The jacobs ladder is a
>>single variable space gap. At the top of the arc in the ladder your
>>spaceing is at a maximum and this is where best output always occurs in a
>>system. This is due to the higher voltage allowed to charge the
>>capacitor. More energy, more spark. Also this is the most damaging
>>point at which to operate a coil and many neon transformers are taken out
>>with overwide gap separations.
>
>> This form of gap used to be used by old radio amateurs and is called a
>>"horn gap" It was also used as a safety type gap in early systems due to
>>its natural tendency to ultimately self extinguish.
>
>
>>Richard Hull, TCBOR
>
>Richard, Chad,
>
>As I read Chad's post I thought he meant that he had removed the
>system storage/oscillator capacitor entirely , as well as the
>standard oscillator 6 gap fixed spark gap,
>and had strung merely a Jacob's Ladder gap in series with the neon
>transformer and the primary of the Tesla coil, and then claimed that
>when the Jacob's Ladder arc had reached the top, he was getting
>streamer output from the Tesla secondary at that instant which was about
>the same as the system was capable of producing when wired as a
>'normal' Tesla coil. Is this correct Chad?
That is precisely what I was describing.
>
>If so, this shud not work!
I thought the same thing (although even when I am thinking I don't misspell
the word "should" :) ). There IS absolutely no reason, whatsoever, for this
to work. Unfortunately, in my case, it did. That is why I wanted to know
if anyone else had witnessed such an anomaly.
>
>Confused by the description as presented, rwstephens
>
>
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