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Re: Beginner's Tesla coil -First Light!
Hi Terry,
This expt. might be useful in setting benchmarks and also
for comparing a somewhat distributed circuit such as the 2-coil TC
with a rather lumped arrangement. Did you say 250mJ gave 10+" sshot?
Malcolm
> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>
>
> At 06:03 AM 11/16/98 PST, Sam Barros wrote:
>
> > But 3 - 4 cm is nothing compared to your unbelievable 25cm sparks!
> >Terry, you got to teach me how to do this!!! SOO COOL!!!
>
> The trick is that the primary and secondary are tuned to the same resonant
> frequency. Thus, it works like a true Tesla coil. I would think your set
> up should have done better but perhaps the tuning just wasen't were it
> needed to be and power was being lost in the gap just like an untuned Tesla
> coil. You probably still had the iron core in yours, so I would think pure
> transformer action should have given a beter output. Hard to say without
> some real heavy thought why it didn't work well.
>
> Terry
>
> >
> > Sam Barros.