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Re: Optimal Quenching Tests



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> Subscriber: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com Wed Jan  8 22:49:05 1997
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 15:30:28 -0500 (EST)
> From: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Optimal Quenching Tests
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> Help theorists!   If the above is true, who can explain why splitting
(pri
> and sec)  that occurs before the first notch goes away before the first
> notch, when quenched at the first notch?   Hard for me to accept without
> understanding.   It would seem to me that if the above is true, then
> splitting must never occur before the first notch whether we happen to
quench
> at first notch or not, otherwise, the gap would have to "know" it was
going
> to quench before it happened (not likely).  And if the split does not
occur
> before the first notch, then what forms the notch in the first place? 
(seems
> to me that splitting and beating is what forms the notch).   Ah, the
> mysteries of coiling.
> 
> John Freau

Hi John,

Sounds like an interesting problem to think about. I don't quite understand
what you guys mean by "notch" though. Could you decribe what's going
on in terms of gap conducting/on-conducting states?

My initial impression - which I don't hold to strongly without a better 
understanding of your situation - is that  "1 notch" in the primary is
essentially acting like an impulse (read delta function). The spectral
content of an impulse is a very wide continuous range of frequencies.
To see splitting, on the other hand, you need to have 2 or more systems
which have characteristic oscillation frequencies. If you interrrupt the
primary "oscillation" after less than one cycle, then it really doesn't
have a true oscillation frequency. This can be seen by taking the
spectrum (or fourier transform) of say 1/2 of a single sine wave cycle.

Perhaps I could help more if I understood the problem better.

-Ed Harris