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Re: The Next Coil
From: Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent: Sunday, August 03, 1997 12:49 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: The Next Coil
John Freau wrote:
> > Hmmm... It's true that the '3 phase - sync gap - 360 BPS' system would
> > have a better power factor, but such a scheme would require three
> > primary capacitor banks and a rather novel commutating arrangement on
> > the rotary gap. I wrestled with this design choice on my present coil,
> > and decided that a diode set would be easier to deal with than three
> > primary capacitor banks and a three phase rotary gap. It's also very
> > convenient to control the thruput power using the rotary gap speed,
> > which eliminates the need for high power variacs.
> > -GL
>
>
> I was thinking in terms of using just one capacitor bank and a regular
> sync-gap...I didn't realize that 3 cap banks would be needed. The
> sync-gap would have 6 electrodes instead of the normal 2, to handle
> the 3 phase...am I missing something? I seem to remember that
> someone tried this (maybe Tesla?) and it worked well.
>
> I agree with you about the ease of power throughput adjustments...that's
> one of the disadvantages of any sync-gap.
You'd have to draw that one for me. I can't visualize how the single
cap bank can be charged evenly from the 3 phases, without using diodes.
Did Tesla ever use 3 phase for powering his coils?
-GL