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Re: Secondary additions and corona breakout



Subject:      Re: Secondary additions and corona breakout
      Date:   Mon, 19 May 1997 21:26:45 +1000
      From:   Peter Electric <elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au>
        To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
References:   1


Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subject:      Re: Secondary additions and corona breakout
>        Date:  Mon, 19 May 1997 09:11:52 +1200
>        From:  "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> Organization: Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
>          To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> 
***Snippo***
 
> BTW, I'm currently making a version of one of Tesla's early 1/2-wave
> lumped coils (a la the lecture to the AIEE) using modern materials
> and a slightly different primary configuration. It also has a ferrite
> rod for a core. I should be testing sometime this week.

Malcolm,

This sounds an interesting concept! Can you put bundles of ferrite rods
inside a TC secondary (well insulated of course) to give you big
inductance from a relatively small secondary?

Maybe there's hope for my 3.5" yet!!

Peter E.