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Re: Gap Losses
From: Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 1:11 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Gap Losses
Hi all,
Greg asked....
> From: Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 1997 1:45 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: Gap Losses
>
> Richard Hull wrote:
>
>
> > As regards what is the optimum surge impedance..... I honestly believe it is
> > like everything else in this messy business...firmly planted in ever
> > shifting sand.
> >
> > It is part of the art.
> >
> > A question to your question what is really high? ...Low? It is as much
> > power related (relates to frequency too) as to some magic number. You
> > effectively said this earlier.
>
> Well, I know that 5.3 ohms is too low for a 4-gap rotary, and I suspect
> that 50 ohms is pushing the high side for most gap systems, even the ones
> with a zillion static gaps in series. My rule of thumb at this time is:
>
> Zchar = 4 ohms X number of series gaps in primary switch.
>
> I would be interested to know where yours (and others) Zchar values fall,
> for your favorite 2-coil systems.
My mini coils with the first transfer loss reported had Zp on the
order of 50 Ohms. I am shooting for 100 Ohms in a new design I have
been commissioned to build for display purposes.
Malcolm