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RESEARCH AT HUT
I installed yesterday my TC at HUT (Helsinki University of Technology) and,
luckly, it performed well without breaking down. The audience was very
impressed.
I am now laying down a tentative action plan about my PhD work. This
includes the following steps:
1. Acquire a good set of the currently available literature on Tesla Coils.
2. Write a top-down specification of one (or two) TC to be built: at least
one of the TCs would include plenty of measurement points and devices.
3. Build the TCs.
4. Measure as much as possible.
5. Device a model supporting my measurements: in practise that will be a
refinement of (and addition to) currently known formulas and theories.
6. From this initial model and set of measures pick an area of special
interest (e.g. the streamer's formation) and investigate deeply into it.
I was thinking to build one or two bigger TCs (2-coil systems) but I am
afraid that going bigger than a certain size I would get very easily
strikes to the strike rail and nothing more. Is this true?
For instance, with a TC with a secondary of 16", 48" tall (3:1):
- how long streamers do you think I could get, at most?
- will I be limited by the distance to the strike-rail (is it a must to use
3-coil systems for long streamers)?
- how much power (kW) do you think that TC would require?
P.S. Among issues that my research is NOT going to touch are:
- home made capacitors (we'll buy them ready)
- NSTs: we'll use a pig or a commercial HV transformer.