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Re: Tesla Twin





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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Tesla Twin   

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>Correct me if I'm wrong but you actually connected the resonator 
>bases together and then connected that connection to the top of the 
>driver coil??  That is not the way to do it. My way is *guaranteed* to 
>work. The correct connection for twin free resonators is to connect
>one to one end of the driver tansformer secondary and the other to 
>the other end. Currents at each end of the driver are in opposite 
>phase and mirror each other. You can see from this that winding 
>direction doesn't matter and that any magnetic coupling is 
>undesirable. In the twins with one resonator driven, the passive 
>resonator is in fact replacing the 1/4 wave ground image.
>
>Malcolm
>
>

This sounds right now....that we assume the other secondary is just an
effective couterpoise.

Richard Hull, TCBOR