Voltage/Length (fwd)

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Voltage/Length (fwd)
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 22:51:55 -0600
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From:  Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz [SMTP:acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br]
Sent:  Thursday, January 22, 1998 12:59 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Voltage/Length (fwd)

Tesla List wrote:

> These equations can be boiled down to give an absolute
> maximum limit for the output voltage:
> Vsec(max) = Vpri x SQRT(Cpri/Csec).

Note also that this expression can also be written as:
Vsec(max) = Vpri x SQRT(Lsec/Lpri)
where Lsec and Lpri are the inductances of the secondary
and primary coils.
An ideal Tesla coil produces exactly the same voltage that
a transformer with unitary coupling would produce, with a 
far-from-ideal transformer.
Possible sources of degradation are mainly resistive losses
(spark gap, wire resistance, irradiation) before the 
secondary voltage reaches the peak value.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
mailto:acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq