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Re: Primary Coil (and cap?) INSIDE Secondary Coil
1/15/99
Terry,
Good idea!
Fortunately for us that is what all of our tesla coil resonators are. Both
capacitive and inductive devices.
Their fields do not cancel out.
RWW
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> Subject: Primary Coil (and cap?) INSIDE Secondary Coil
> Date: Thursday, January 14, 1999 8:44 PM
>
> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>
>
> I had this thought the other day. Since capacitiors are usually rolled.
> Would it be possible to use a capacitor as both the primary capacitor and
> primary inductor in one unit? In other words, the spiral plates of the
cap
> would also serve as a spiral primary inductor? Or, would the fields
always
> canecl the effect?? such a unit would be really neat for the situations
> where you would insert the primary inside the secondary.
>
> My gut feel is that the physics would not allow such a machine to work,
> but....
>
>
> Terry
>
>
>
> At 04:49 PM 1/14/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >I gotta wonder, different opinions do that :-) So, who IS right?
> >
> >>> Ok, what about doing it with the primary INSIDE the secondary?
> >
> >
> >> Jeff, this is suicide for your coil. think about the magnetic field
donut
> >>Cabbott Sanders
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> >>This works. I believe that both Malcolm Watts and Greg Leyh have
> >>mentioned doing just that in past
> >>Thomas McGahee
> >
> >>I believe this is what Greg did with Electrum ......
> >>Mark
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