Re: Does it matter which way i wind my secondary?

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

> A Tesla transformer is just this, a transformer (that works as a
> double resonance system when you add the primary and secondary
> capacitances).
> The directions of the windings affect the relative polarities between
> the primary and secondary only. If you compare two identical coils
> working with identical primary circuits and identical secondaries
> wound in opposite directions, the only difference that you will
> see is that the secondary voltage and current waveforms are inverted
> one in relation to the other.
> In a typical system powered in AC, the two coils will show exactly
> the same performance.
> If the system is powered in DC (the primary capacitor is charged always
> with the same polarity), I would expect some slight difference in the
> spark output, because it's easier to have breakout with negative
> voltages than with positive voltages.

	Are you referring to the polarity of the first peak of the secondary
voltage of a heavily-coupled coil?

> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz

Ed