Re: Corum's Resonator Theory

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Subject: Re: Corum's Resonator Theory
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 07:30:25 -0600
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Friday, October 31, 1997 1:02 AM
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Subject: 	Re: Corum's Resonator Theory

Hello All,
               I must say I think this is a most interesting 
argument...

> From:   DR.RESONANCE[SMTP:DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net]
> Sent:   Thursday, October 30, 1997 10:35 PM
> To:     Tesla List
> Subject:    Re: Corum's Resonator Theory
> 
> to: Malcolm
> 
> Don't buy all of it.  If your sec coil is setting atop a 24 inch high base
> (as an example) the primary magnetic field will sweep upwards and downwards
> essentially equally.  If the base is setting on a concrete floor or outside
> on the ground this means your sec coil could only be a max of 24 inches
> high because the downward sweep would short out in the ground plane.  I
> still feel a lot of the energy is coupled in the lower end of the sec and
> propagated as a wave motion rather than an entire coupling of the sec coil
> by the primary coil.  Your experiments are neat and hopefully will provide
> some interesting answers to these questions.

Excellent point. Well I did point out to them quite strenuously the 
point about the toroid being a shorted turn and its lack of effect on 
the secondary (let alone the primary). As I say, the uneven k 
argument was dissmissed with a hand-wave. That really got me 
wondering. In the same breath I do have to note that turning a spiral 
on its side can be demonstrated to up the Q (gap aside) quite 
significantly if it has been mounted close to the ground. However, it 
can't be all bad to begin with or nothing would work and the primary 
losses would be absolutely terrible.
     Also, I didn't say so in that post but there is also the 
suggestion from C&C that the two frequencies present in the system 
coalesce into Fr when the primary lets go of the resonator. I don't 
buy that either. While one sees two frequencies in the frequency 
domain, one quite clearly sees the time varying voltage waxing and 
waning at Fr as pri-sec transfers proceed. Personally I am quite 
happy with what the scope shows happening in the time domain as 
regards secondary frequency and amplitude. Absence of evidence of 
coherence to me suggests the secondary already is coherent as Bert 
has suggested.

Thanks for the thoughts. Any more or anyone else, please post. I am 
not out to put C&C down. I just want to understand this thing.

Regards,
Malcolm