Re: Fanciful spark-augmenter

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Original poster: "Kennan C Herrick by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kcha1-at-juno-dot-com>

Terry-

See my posting of 6/1, originally attempted to be posted on 5/31, re how
I should have proposed this in the first place.

Ken

On Sat, 02 Jun 2001 11:57:16 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> Note that the signal generator's source impedance and the scope 
> probe
> impedance will have a dramatic effect on Q.  You may want a say 10K
> resistor in series with the signal generator output and us a high 
> impedance
> (10meg  or more) probe to get a good voltage ringup on your LC 
> circuit.
> 
> You may have already known and done this but thought I would mention 
> it
> just in case.  I am working on a MicroSim model to see if we can 
> move the
> fantasy to the silicon stage ;-)) 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Terry
> 
> 
> At 01:36 PM 6/1/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >Further on the question, raised by Scott Fulks, on the Q of 5T of 
> wire on
> >a 12"-dia form paralleled with a .03-.07 uF capacitor:  When I 
> measured a
> >Q of 18 or so, I had had the capacitor connected via a 
> twisted-together
> >pair of 12" clip-leads.  Not so good, apparently, since when I 
> removed
> >those leads and connected the capacitor directly at the coil-ends I 
> got a
> >Q of 42.  No doubt I could do even better with other than plain old 
> 12
> >ga. house-wire and a junk-box capacitor.
> >
> >Ken Herrick 
> >________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
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