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Re: Spice simulation pictures




>Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 00:28:21 -0500
>From: "Robert W. Stephens" <rwstephens-at-ptbo.igs-dot-net>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: Spice simulation pictures
>
[snip]

>I was able to swing the 100 pF load to about 85 kilovolts RMS (120 kV 
>peak).  The secondary winding got so hot in just 120 seconds of operation that
>I shut the system down for fear of melting the PVC tube on which it was 
>wound!  My circulating current was 8 amps RMS according to the 
>measured output voltage across a capacitive reactance of some 10.6 K 
>ohms, but the heat produced in the wire felt more the equivalent of 
>maybe 30 amps RMS.  Can anyone explain where my figuring leads to 
>such an error?  The interconnect between the top of the secondary and 
>the drum capacitor was #14 PVC covered solid wire.  It got bloody hot 
>too.

Robert,
	Skin effect?

	jim