RE: CW TC's are still TC's, was Chaotic Resonance(Solid State Coilers)

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <free0076-at-flinders.edu.au>



On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "John H. Couture by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
> 
> 
> John -
> 
> I like to think of a Tesla coil as having to use dampened waves because for
> a fixed amount of input energy the dampened wave will produce a greater
> output voltage compared to a continuous wave.
> 
> John Couture
> 

In CW coils we rarely work with a fixed amount of energy anyway, since the
thing is usually continuously excited (with the exception of pulsed
designs). Could you please explain why there should be a greater voltage
with a damped wave? For a fixed energy, ignoring losses, the time at which
all the energy is delivered to the secondary there should be the same
voltage in both cases.

Darren Freeman