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Re: RESEARCH AT HUT



Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: "Marco Denicolai"<Marco.Denicolai-at-tellabs.fi>
>
> 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?

I think this is a coherent plan, remember to revisit this overview
occasionally to keep perspective and to possibly revise objectives as
necessary and advisable.

One more note to ponder; consideration of applications of TC output other than
big streamers (i.e. pinch plasma x-ray lasers, EMP generators, etc.) This is
another way to gain and provide internal university support; seek out
unrelated HV projects on campus  [ just beware of the shadow of campus
politics ; ) .]  It is the real purpose of universities to society, to cross
pollenate fertile ideas and to provide an environment for new invention (which
is just the bringing together of seemingly disparate concepts in novel ways.)

Congradulations and Bon Voyage, this adventure upon which you embark is envied
by many of us, any way in which we can help is offered. Please do keep us
posted.

Bryan Kaufman