Re: Meissner oscillator

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Original poster: "Herwig Roscher by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <herwig.roscher-at-gmx.de>


John Freau wrote:

> >  Mark Rzeszotarski has built such a small VTTC which 
produced a 1" brush.
> I built this type of coil also,  and it gave only a 5" spark, even
> when rather tightly coupled.  When running in the normal tuned 
> plate mode, it gave a 7" spark. 

John,

So your results confirm that the drawback here is that the output 
power is smaller, because there is no resonant rise in the plate coil.
Obviously that's not the way to go.

Regards,

Herwig