Re: Any Very High Freq. TCs?

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Any Very High Freq. TCs?
From: wb8jkr-at-juno-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 19:23:57 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

  In a Tesla coil usually the lower frequency the better,
but for sake of experimentation I did get a conventional
coil working at 3.4 Mhz a few years back. It produced
a 2-2.5" spark and used a .001 ufd primary cap.

Mark Graalman


>Tesla List wrote:
>
>> Original Poster: Steven Ivy <adder_black_the-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>>
>> I have been looking for a while and I have yet to see any real 
>mention
>> of the significance of the overall operating frequency of a TC other
>> than it is best to have the primary and secondary resonances tuned 
>to
>> the same frequency. I was just wondering if the standard TC topology
>> is still useful at very high frequencys like at 1 Mhz or even much
>> higher?  In principal I don't see any reason why the whole concept
>> should not scale  nicely and produce a perfectly good high 
>performance
>> design that would only need to be a small  fraction of the size of 
>the
>> ones we usually see. It would be a lot of fun to have half a million
>> volts at 1 GHz operating on my kitchen table : ) Is there some
>> particular flaw in this scaling idea other than the difficulty in
>> producing a spark gap capable of operating at these very high
>> frequencys.
>>
>> Thanks: Steve
>> adder_black_the-at-yahoo-dot-com
>> Dallas Texas
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