Re: Resonant RMS current

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• Subject: Re: Resonant RMS current
• From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
• Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 19:26:00 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

At 04:50 PM 5/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
>At 06:03 PM 5/21/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
>>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>	The thought occured to me - What is the RMS current of the noen in a
>>resonant charged style TC that has the safety gaps constantly firing and is
>>this current too high???
>>
>>	Modeling shows that the RMS current of a 15kV/60mA neon driving a 10.6nF
>>cap with the safety gaps just sitting there firing away at 20kV is about
>>60mA.  So NO problem.....
>>
>>	Terry
>>
>----------------------------------
>
>  Terry -
>
>  Would you call this reactive current coming from the capacitor?
>
>  John Couture
>

John,

The current from the capacitor to the safety gap is very high in this case.
 The gap is basically burning up all the stored energy of the cap.  The
transformer however, is still simply putting out a small current as usual.

	Terry

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