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Re: First post: Fluoresce
On 10/16/96 23:05:59 you wrote:
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>>From richard.quick-at-slug-dot-orgWed Oct 16 22:41:43 1996
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 22:50:00 GMT
>From: Richard Quick <richard.quick-at-slug-dot-org>
>To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: First post: Fluoresce
>
>Quoting pgantt-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com:
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> > I constructed a simple prototype coil using 28 guage wire,
> > approximately 1-1/4 inches in diameter and about 1/2 inches in
> > height. The turns ratio was about 10 to 1. At resonance,
> > this yields a voltage transformation ratio of about 100 to 1.
> > The resonant frequency was about 6MHz. When the primary was
> > excited with an RF generator and the secondary connected to a
> > 40 watt fluorescent tube with a single wire (return path
> > through the air), the lamp could be fully illuminated with
> > less than 6 watts.
>
>Efficiency climbs when you use a two wire system based on the
>same basic pricipal. Instead of using a single terminal (one open
>end) Tesla coil for the resonator, go with a bipolar coil (two
>open ends) and center mounted primary. The single wire system
>makes a wonderful demonstration, but the two wire system just
>plain works better.
>
>Richard Quick
Thanks for the input. I can believe there would be better coupling in the
configuration you described, but what I envisioned was imbedding the
transformer into the base of a fluorescent lamp. Thus, the single wire
configuration seemed most appropriate.
Phil Gantt