Re: TC Secondary Base Power

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: TC Secondary Base Power
From: Bert Pool <nikki-at-fastlane-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 07:02:48 -0500 (CDT)
At 10:25 PM 10/23/96 -0600, you wrote:
>> >Subject: TC Secondary Base Power
>
>>From hullr-at-whitlock-dot-comWed Oct 23 21:42:14 1996
>Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 10:35:27 -0700
>From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: TC Secondary Base Power 
>
>
>
>Richard Hull answers Richard Wall:
>
>Absolutely!!!  The resonator can be sort of,... kinda,... maybe,...be 
>viewed as a laser cavity.  The primary is the flash lamp. (energy input 
>source).  The helix of wire is the tuned cavity.  The ground is the 100% 
>reflective mirror.  The toroid end is the partially silvered output 
>mirror/window.  A bigger toroid (heavy silvering) traps energy within the 
>cavity longer increasing the relative rise of power, via multiple 
>reflections, but reduces the output duty cycle.  Smaller toploads or no 
>toroid (very light silvering) allows the system to function but the 
>energy output is minimal but more continuous.  Energy is conserved , as 
>always, but the output appears vastly different in the two cases.  The 
>energy in the coil is blasted in and out of the ground at the resonant 
>frequency.  100% of the cavity energy (energy actually circulating in the 
>resonantor tank system) passes through this connection! 
>
>Lousey grounds show up as a real loser...the once 100% silvered mirror 
>(ground) is now only partially reflective and emitting or releasing some 
>of the trapped cavity energy! 
>
> There is some loss, or energy differential between this point and the 
>actual ouput point, (heat, skin losses, resistive losses, etc), but it is 
>fairly minimal in a good system.  This is where the rubber meets the 
>road!  I would say that a measure of the base energy would closely follow 
>the actual output energy of the system. 
>
> From my measurements ( not calculations) made in the past on two coil 
>systems, this is on the order of only 10-20% of the wall outlet supplied 
>energy.
>
>If you want to see nasty raw RF power,..  If you want to smoke 
>instruments,... stick 'em in the base/ground circuit of a big system.
>
>Richard Hull, TCBOR
>

Richard, I love your Tesla coil/LASER analogy.  I'm jealous because I never
saw the similarity myself!

Bert Pool