Re: Reflections in Power Transfer

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Subject: Re: Reflections in Power Transfer
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 08:09:51 -0500
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Subject:     Re: Reflections in Power Transfer
       Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 20:34:11 -0700
       From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-com>
Organization: Stoneridge Engineering
         To:  Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Subject:      Re: Reflections in Power Transfer
>        Date:  Fri, 16 May 1997 18:08:49 +1200
>        From:  "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
> Organization: Wellington Polytechnic, NZ
>          To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> 
> RE:
> 
> >   From:  "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
> >     To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >
> >
> > "
> > Do you think that the streamer impedance can change as fast as
> > the current in the sinusoidal waveform?"
> >         Will let Malcom speak for himself, but personally
> > believe that the non-linearities over a single cycle aren't
> > too large, because of the ion transport mechanisms involved.
> > Sure there is some effect, but considering that it often
> > takes seconds for the streamers to build to full length (at
> > least with my little coils) think that much slower mechanisms
> > are involved.
> > Ed
> 
> Is there the slightest possibility that we can somehow get the
> secondary to lose its lot in one cycle? I would imagine that would
> make for some interesting discharges if so.
> 
> Malcolm
> 
> >

Malcolm, 

A hard discharge to ground will do it! :^)

-- Bert --