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Re: Tesla magnifiers



> > Original Poster: "David W" <Dav_W926-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
>  >  
>  >  Hi again,
>  >      I have another question; does anybody know any good sites that deal 
>  with
>  >  tesla magnifier systems, or maybe a program like wintesla for 
magnifiers? 
>  
>  I
>  >  have found sites that deal with the basic theory of them, but no 
specific
>  >  calculations, not even any "numbers" to copy for my own magnifier.  I 
> have
>  >  searched all over and have yet to find a good source of info.  -- 
Thanks 
>  to 
>  > all
>  >  and happy coiling
>  >      ~Dave
>  
>  Dave,
>  I don't think anyone made a program for magnifiers to help design them.
>  (but i may be wrong here).
>  Antonio Carlos DeQueiroz has some good formulaes at his webpage;
>  formulas that if followed, may give better than usual results.  So far, 
I've
>  never heard of any magnifier that has been built that outperformed a
>  regular TC.  In one maggy design I built, I used about 7mH in the driver
>  secondary, and 23mH for the resonator.
>  
>  Antonio's site also gives the formulas for calculating the true coupling
>  of a magnifier.  The true coupling is usually much lower than the 
>  driver coupling.  I don't have the URL handy, but I'm sure Antonio or
>  someone else will post it for you.
>  
>  Cheers,
>  John Freau