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Big Secondary
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From: Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 1:17 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Big Secondary
Hi Dwight,
> From: dwight duncan [SMTP:duncand-at-ccsalpha2.nrl.navy.mil]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 11:49 AM
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Big Secondary
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> It has been a while since I have signed on but I think I needed a
> break. Now that I have made a 3 KW magnifier system and had great success
> with it I am going to move on to other things.
> What I have in mind is a large coil, essentially modeled after what I
> know about Nemeses. I propose a secondary that is on a polyethylene drum
> and is 24" dia. with a 30" winding length. The toroid will be 8x36" and the
> primary will be a flat spiral, a .08mf Maxwell cap and a 2400 rpm, 12 point
> rotory gap with Elconite stationary electrodes.
> All of this may be under powered by my supply which is 10 Kv -at- 300 ma,
> but it is all the supply I can afford at the moment. With the shipping
> cost of a 10 KVA pig and the ballast to go with it is just out of my reach
> at the moment. I think even with 3 KVA I won't be disappointed with such a
> large coil and a small aspect ratio.
>
> Any comments are very much welcome,
>
> Dwight
30" high is not going to allow very high secondary voltages in a two
coil system. If that was the output resonator in a three coil system
on the other hand, you could stuff a fair bit of the voltage into the
driver secondary. Sounds like a nice resonator for a three coil
system.
Malcolm