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Secondary resonance freq




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From:  Marco Denicolai [SMTP:marco-at-vistacom.fi]
Sent:  Monday, June 08, 1998 1:47 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Secondary resonance freq

At 09:14 06/06/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Hello Marco,All,
>
>    You don't say how you connected the function generator and oscilloscope.
>The classic way is to feed the base of the coil with the sig gen then drape
>a wire connected to the scope near by and tune for Max radiation and hence
>reading.
>
>My computer program calculates your resonance at 337 kHz so 324Khz is
>definitely the fundamental.

Yes, that's the frequency at which I got the most attenuation.

>
>If your sig gen has a 600 Ohm output impedance (i.e. on the high side) I
>find it better to scope the output of the sig gen.  You then tune for a null
>or minimum signal.  The secondary coil, as a series resonator becomes and
>acceptor circuit and loads the output hence the signal goes down.  

That's what I did.

>The
>advantage of this method is that you get much less mains born modulation on
>your scope.  Also you get much less pickup of other radiation which can
>confuse the reading.  Make sure the secondary is away from any primary
>circuits or other coils.

The secondary was alone apart from all the other TC hardware.



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