Re: solid cores

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

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>
> 
> Chris: some very good work has been posted on the tesla list in the past.
> The early ignition coils were like tesla coils wound on a center rod core
> made of burned bailing wire bundeled together. I beleave it is the odin
> coil. ( names slip past me) but the work posted is a new sience in this.
>     Robert  H

	That same method is still used in many coils for "make-break" ignition
systems.  This is NOT a resonant device (Tesla or Oudin coil), but just
an open-core transformer with a high voltage ratio.

Ed