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Tesla Coil Document Now Available
From: Geoff Schecht[SMTP:geoffs-at-onr-dot-com]
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 1997 9:38 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Tesla Coil Document Now Available
Hello All;
A while back there was a thread about the mathematics of TC's. I finally
scanned in the chapter from that book I mentioned I had and have put the
PDF file of it on my website (if you can call it that) at:
http://www.onr-dot-com/user/geoffs/geoffs/resoxfmr.pdf
I had to capture (OCR) it down from over 10Megs to a more manageable 1.4Meg
file. The OCR process caused a lot of weird font shifts/non-recognitions to
occur so I had to spend several hours cleaning up all 22 pages. It's still
not 100% perfect but it looks ok when you read or print it (except that the
first few pages use a larger font than the rest of the document, Acrobat is
strange sometimes and I'm no expert with it).
Anyway, this file is an interesting read about some of the methods used to
generate megavolt high-frequency power for various uses (X-ray machines and
medical accelerators among others). The math may be a bit much if you
dislike systems of differential equations but that's only on about 2 pages
and it's not hard to follow the derivations. The schematics are pretty
cool, too. Those of you in Europe may find the bibliography interesting if
you have access to a library with a collection of 50-70 year old
periodicals!
Enjoy and let me know what you think. I'll leave the file there for a
couple of days but then it'll have to go. I only have 5Meg allotted by my
ISP and I'd like to get a real webpage set up. (There's also a copy of that
Wintesla Beta on my webpage, it's an interesting program).
Geoff