Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"

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Subject: Re: Tesla Coil Operation - was "Harmonics"
From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 02:04:46 -0700
Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

> Original Poster: W Y Liu <eenwyl-at-sun.leeds.ac.uk> 
> 
> 
> (snip) 
> > Another TC operation that may be impossible to model is the
> > operating spark gap. This involves thermodynamics and entropy. Magnetic
> > circuits do not involve temperature or entropy.
> > 
> It is unlikely that these statement(s) will lead to anywhere, if everyone
> trusts that this is impossible.  I can say that there are people who have
> experience of characterising something similar. 

I wholeheartedly agree. There are mathematical descriptions of the 
gap available and its 1st order operation (and nett electrical effect 
on the tank) can be observed on the scope by anyone who cares to look. 

Malcolm