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Re: An Important Post.
From: richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: Sunday, August 10, 1997 1:38 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: An Important Post.
At 06:15 AM 8/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>From: Richard Wayne Wall[SMTP:rwall-at-ix-dot-netcom-dot-com]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 3:42 PM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: An Important Post.
>
>Malcolm wrote:
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>snip
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>>
>>Apparatus: A seven stage line was built as follows:
>>
>> 1.6mH 800uH 400uH 200uH 100uH 50uH 25uH
>> ----oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+--oooo--+---
>> In | | | | | | | Out
>> --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>> --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
>> Gnd | | | | | | |
>> ----------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+---
>> 10pF 22pF 50pF 100pF 220pF 470pF 1000pF
>>
>>Caps are silvered mica jobs. The inductors are airwound on bobbins
>>for the popular FX2239 potcores.
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>snip
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>Malcolm,
>
>Placing matching inductors in the opposite bottom "slots" of the ground
>line allows a truer representation of a transmission line. The ground
>line can be entirely eliminated. This configuration has already been
>done. Eric Dollard did this with his "analog computer" representation
>of a transmission line. Only Eric used repeating units of the same
>valued inductors and capacitors. More like a real wound resonator.
>Eric measured magnetic and ES components and their effects along the
>various segments from one end to the other and contrasted them with
>predicted transmission line values at quarter wave resonance. There
>was marked disagreement. Orthodox transmission line theory assumes
>transverse propagation of an EM wave. Eric's model demonstrates
>longitudnal transmission of an electrical wave. Longitudnal
>transmission - a theory near and dear to Nikola Tesla.
>
>RWW
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>
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>All,
I have Dollards tape presentation of this and he does some amazing stuff.
He is a doer and alround experimentalist and poses some tought questions
which still have me giratin'
Richard Hull, TCBOR