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Re: Now, How does a coil really work??
Marco Denicolai wrote:
> - now the part that many people skip: when the spark gap opens, the
> secondary will go on oscillating freely at its natural frequency until all
> its energy is dissipated into losses.
>
> - another part that many skip: the effect of streamers on all the above. If
> a streamer is formed, it will suck the secondary energy and will dump
> whatever is going on (energy transfer if the gap is still closed, secondary
> free oscillation if the gap is already open).
These features are well known. The waveforms, however, are less
interesting.
> - now you have reached knowledge at the single bang level: what is the
> effect of multiple consecutive bangs (i.e. a rotary gap)? I have no answers
> (yet) about their effect to streamer length, but at least they have no
> effect on the secondary voltage until the bang rate is so high that you are
> able to catch the tail of the freely oscillating secondary and (again, with
> resonant charging) buildup a higher voltage.
Remember also that for the buildup actually work, consecutive "bangs"
must
result in waveforms precisely in phase, otherwise the average result
will
be null.
And since you mentioned Smythe, verify it there is a deduction for the
electric field around a toroid in the book. Such expression would be
useful
in the determination of the breakout voltage for a toroid.
Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz