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Re: Not enough pimary inductance?
>Original Poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
>
>"I had heard the well circulated wive's tale that off axis L would waste
>energy. This test graphically proved that it does not.
>
>The practical conclusion is that it IS technically acceptable to place a
>high quality air core tuning coil in series with the Tesla coil primary
>coil in order to achieve 'fine tuning' without throwing away hard won RF
>tank circuit energy!
>
>Real valuable knowledge gleaned by the actual doing.
>
>
>Robert W. Stephens
>
>"
>
> That is, indeed, an old wive's tale. What will happen, however, is
>that the coefficient of coupling will be reduced. However, that doesn't
>mean any power will be lost, unless the added coil is lossy.
>
>Ed
Hmmm...Doesn't that imply that one could have a slight over-coupled
primary, add in an off-axis inductance, and use the off-axis coil to tune
for magic k?
Dan