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Re: Gap Dwell Times (formerly: Beating S




It was a technical note (thesis).  Should be available from the High Energy
Research Building records office for free.
Barry

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|From: "tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|To: Benson Barry; "Tesla-list-subscribers-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com"-at-PMDF-at-PAXMB1
|Subject: Re: Gap Dwell Times (formerly: Beating S
|Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 3:20AM
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|From sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.eduMon Oct  7 21:42:01 1996
|Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:46:08 -0400 (EDT)
|From: Steve Roys <sroys-at-umabnet.ab.umd.edu>
|To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
|Subject: Re: Gap Dwell Times (formerly: Beating S
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|On Sun, 6 Oct 1996, Tesla List wrote:
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|> There was (maybe still is?) an experiment at the University of Maryland
|> called the Dragon that used a single pulse Tesla coil (3 megavolt in oil)
|> for its power source.  The designer was Alex Shipman.  He wrote an
|> article about the design.  In the article he performed calculations
|> to optimize coupling for maximum energy transfer in minimum
|> number of cycles.  He found that if the coupling were adjusted
|> just right then all of the energy from the primary could be
|> transfered to the secondary in less than three cycles.
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|Do you remember what the article was in?  I would be interested in seeing
|a copy of it.
|
|Thanks,
|
|Steve.
|