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Re: Addendum-DC Tesla
I'd just like to add another thought to this.
> Many of my fellow engineers and even the more informed neophytes, just
> have to feel that some sort of rectificaion is taking place in the Tesla
> coil scenario I played out in the earlier posting. Why guys! Lets think
> a moment. I wonder if we were to account for all the losses and outputs
> from a Tesla coil in "HOT SPARK MODE" if we wouldn't find the DC output
> would swamp the AC output in relative power? If this were the case, the
> DC would be the "normal mode of operation for the sparking system"!!
At the time a discharge is initiated, the terminal has some
arbitrary polarity. In effect you could look on it as having a large
DC charge even though this is a momentary state of affairs.
Make sense?
Malcolm