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Re: Top Load Optimizing - Q?
Hi Terry,
Would you mind explaining something please?
> Original Poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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> They usually have to add capacitance or more turns to the primary circuit
> which is something they wish they had known before. They KNOW when they
> get it right ;-)) The only heat loss that really matters is that when a
> coil is out of tune, ALL the energy goes into burning up the spark gap.
> When they are in tune, half that energy goes into the arcs (and the other
> half still tries to burn up the gap ;-)).
Under what exact experimental conditions did you measure that and
how did you measure it? I have measured transfer efficiencies in
excess of 80% in some coils and given that one can get rid of
secondary energy in a spark before it returns to the primary, the
gap loss is nowhere near that bad *under this particular condition*.
Regards,
Malcolm
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