Re: Proposed capacitive transformer TC?

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Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>

Antonio,
has the following topology ever been tried:

                                              (=+=)
                                                  I
                                                 L2
                                                 L2
-------L1- +-------+-------------)   L2   (  EIP1
                I          I                      L2
 PSU     C1       SG1               L2
                I          I                       I
------------+-------+-----------------+-------------GND
Description:
The electric induction plane EIP1 is a metal plate with hole in the middle
wide
enough for L2 to stand within the enclosed space without touching; it is
connected to L1, C1 and SG1 the spark gap, it  not connected to L2 the
secondary coil other than by capacitive coupling.
L2 is grounded at one end and connected to a toroid at the other.

Would  it work?

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Subject: Re: Proposed capacitive transformer TC?


> Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
>
> Hi:
>
> I have just tested the idea: It works.
>
> First, I modified my transformerless system to the form:
>
>                       (=====) Terminal
>                          |
>                          L2
>                          |
>   o------+--L1--+--------+
>          o      |
>  PSU    gap     C1
>          o      |
>   o------+------+----------o Ground
>
> It works as well as before (the disk behind is not part of the system):
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/mres4lcf.jpg
>
> The easiest way that I found to make the capacitive transformer coil was
> to concentrate the capacitance between the terminal and the top of C2,
> adding another terminal above C1:
>
>               (===)   (=====) Terminal
>                 |        |
>                 |        L2
>                 |        |
>   o------+--L1--+        |
>          o      |        |
>  PSU    gap     C1       |
>          o      |        |
>   o------+------+--------+-o Ground
>
> http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/mres4ct.jpg
>
> The system works, producing small streamers at the terminal (too faint
> for a good picture). The voltage at the main terminal is evidently much
> higher than at the terminal added to C1. There is a large loss, however,
> because just a part of the electric field lines around the couples to
> the added terminal. (I don't see a reason for complete energy transfer
> being impossible in this case, however. Apparently just a question of
> modifying the element values.)
>
> Note that this system is precisely the "energy transmission through
> the ground" idea (that is actually not through the ground only, as
> some recent posts discuss), in this case with a low-impedance
> "transmitter" and a high-impedance "receiver".
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>
>
>
>
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