Re: inductance and output power ?

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>

HI Chris,

On 28 Apr 2002, at 15:38, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Chris Swinson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <exxos-at-cps-games.co.uk>
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> Hi all,
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> I plotted some coils I wound into excel just to see what all the coil specs
> came out like. I noticed that the lower inductance coils always seen to give
> better output than higher inductance coils.  Does this sounds right ? 

Is that in theory, or in practice? Were the primary energies the 
same, or different? Breakrates? What had the lower inductance, 
primary, secondary, both? I won't ask for more details at the moment. 
As you can see, there is more to it than simply comparing two 
inductances.

> I
> would have thought higher inductance would give more of a kick than lower
> inductance coils. The frequency could well be a little higher with lower
> inductance coils which could be why but it still seems very odd that lower
> inductance looks better....

Inductance alone does not determine the coil's resonant frequency. 
Capacitance is the missing part of the considerations here. Physical 
coil size matters as does topload. So too does........

Regards,
malcolm

 
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