Re: Corum's Resonator Theory

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• Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 22:22:18 -0600
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Sunday, November 02, 1997 3:47 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Corum's Resonator Theory

Hi John,

> From:   FutureT[SMTP:FutureT-at-aol-dot-com]
> Sent:   Friday, October 31, 1997 11:16 PM
> To:     tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject:    Re: Corum's Resonator Theory
> 
> In a message dated 97-10-30 20:09:31 EST, you write:
> 
> << snip>
> > (3) The re-arrangement of current (which it is claimed would result 
> > in a voltage rise over the lumped situation) has not been observed by 
> > anyone I know. Personally I have captured waveforms using a 
> > storage scope many, many times and not once have I ever seen a 
> > hint of this, breakout conditions or no. In fact, I will touch on 
> > this problem in point (4) below. Perhaps someone has seen it. 
> > If so, please, please post.
> 
> Malcolm, all,
> 
> This may be of interest to those who have not read the below
> mentioned paper.
> 
> The Corums write on page 11 of their paper "Tesla Coils: 1890-1990
> 100 years of cavity resonator development", that they measured the
> output voltage of a TC having a 24" dia secondary, 780 turns of #10
> copper wire, top loaded with a 24pF ball, and resonant at 67 kHz,
> and they found the predicted and measured coherence time to be
> about 71uS.  The TC's  predicted and
> measured Q was 6