Re: Gap Losses

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Gap Losses
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 15:35:10 -0700

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.milSun Oct  6 12:32:58 1996
> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 12:07:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Benson_Barry%PAX5-at-mr.nawcad.navy.mil
> To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Gap Losses
> 
> I am curious if anyone has tried a gap between the power supply and tank
> to allow feeding of the tank only when it needs it?  I've wondered about
> having a low frequency current source in opposition to a high frequency
> current at the spark gap.  Theoretically the transformer protection circuit
> impedance should decouple it during the ring but I wonder if part of the
> tank Q could be affected by it in a practical circuit.
> 
> I have noticed that when I put in a big common mode choke to protect
> my driver transformers the spark became wimpier (still same length)
> but the power (voltage measured at transformer output and current
> measured at transformer input) was the same?
> Barry
> 
> Barry,

Tesla actually used a number of other gaps in tandem in Colorado mainly 
to charge the capacitor, (Ingenious idea) but all were of lesser 
operational success than the tried and true circuits.  (see CSN).


Richard Hull, TCBOR