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Re: Low Voltage Primary



Comment from Ken Herrick:  

It ain't either the volts or the amps, it's amps x turns: the secondary
only "cares about" magnetic flux, and that's proportional to
ampere-turns.  I've found, in my t.c., that with 160V of
secondary-resonance ac applied to my 1 primary turn, the current thru it
is around 250A, giving ~16" or so sparks from a 4" c.s.d. aluminum-duct
toroid atop a 1500T secondary.  I need a bigger or smoother toroid-c.s.d.
to find out what greater spark length I can get: I can readily see from
the secondary's waveform that it has a "way to go" before the voltage
rise tops out.  And I plan shortly to increase the 160V to 2x or 3x that,
for commensurately bigger zap.

The problem with low supply-voltage is: how do you turn it into ac?  A
spark gap is out (a gap won't, of course, fire at such a low voltage), so
you have to use (fast) transistors.  That's what I'm working on.  I'll
not be more specific now since I have a patent-appl. in for the primary
configuration (not necessarily related to t.c. work).  Also, if you want
hi current/lo voltage, you must necessarily end up with a small quantity
of turns (in my case, 1).  Thus, as you point out, a resonant primary is
not feasible.  That happens to be fine with me since I then have only 1
resonance to contend with (the secondary's) and not 2.

Regards-  KCH

On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 20:03:51 -0700 Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> writes:
>Original Poster: ross andrews <sflourine-at-home-dot-com> 
>
>
>	Hi all,
>
>	I am interested in using low voltages for the tank circut.  If 
>one were
>to use a 240V tank circut, one would save the cost of transformers 
>and
>caps, not to mention putting immense amounts of current through the
>primary coil.  (all this stemmed from reading a paragraph about "it
>ain't the volts but the amps that matters").  However, plugging 
>numbers
>into wintesla gave some disappoiting numbers:  since the capacitance 
>of
>the main cap would need to be around 230 uF, the primary's resonating
>frequency is very low, around 1.7 kHz.  Using standard 1/4 wavelength
>calculations, this gives a secondary amounting to 13000 or so turns
>(wintesla).  After admitting that a spark gap will not be easily
>constructed (I have a few ideas, ranging from ionized gas to statues 
>of
>Buddha) My question is:  Is it possible to use the recommended 
>600-1000
>turns and still get the coil in good tune since the 1/4 wavelength 
>idea
>has be disproven?  Anyone have any ideas?   Keep in mind that my
>knowledge of coiling is sparse at best.
>
>	Thanks,
>	Ross
>
>

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