Donner und Blitzen

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• Subject: Donner und Blitzen
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• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:08:05 -0600
• Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

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From:  Bill Lemieux [SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
Sent:  Wednesday, February 25, 1998 12:06 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Donner und Blitzen

> L.Robertson wrote:
> 
> > Why not put a jolly big pulse discharge capacitor
> > between the bottom of the secondary and ground.
> > Charge it up to many tens of kV, then crank up the
> > coil as usual. Any ionization path to ground ought
> > to benefit from the energy stored in the big cap.

Some thoughts:

* the self-inductance of the secondary ought to considerably slow down
any high-powered discharge from the cap

* if you do manage to generate a very high current pulse from the cap,
there may be some potential for damaging your secondary windings. 
However, I think this unlikely because the peak current ought to be
drastically limited by the secondary inductance

* won't the cap change the resonant frequency of the secondary quite a
bit?

-Gomez

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