Re: Y doesnt coupled voltage go straight to ground-Check the Archives

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Original poster: "rheidlebaugh by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <rheidlebaugh-at-zialink-dot-com>

Dave: The TC is a coil with a open coil terminated with a capacitive hat.
The charge impedance is powered with a few hundred amps of primary current
and  few  ohms . The discharge impedance is several hundred meg ohms and
micro amps until breakdown. The time constant is not the same.
     Robert  H 

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> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 11:25:03 -0600
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> Subject: Re: Y doesnt coupled voltage go straight to ground-Check the
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> Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <davep-at-quik-dot-com>
> 
>> I am a newbie coiler and have been a member of the
>> list for a month now.
> 
> ....
> 
> 
>> For example, why doesnt the coupled voltage/current go
>> straight down the secondary ground and dissipate into
>> the earth.
> 
> This is basic electricity, rather than Tesla specific.
> 
> First:
> The current behaves differently from the voltage.
> The secondary inductance blocks/reduces/limits
> current to earth.  This causes voltage to rise
> at the top. (can be phrased differently)
> To some extent the mag field causes the
> voltage to appear at the top (non rigorous
> phrasing.)
> 
>> I assume the current is attracted to the earth ground thru
> 
>> either a magnetic field or a gravitational pull.
> 
> Neither.  Again, this is basic electricity, rather
> than Tesla coil specific.  Excess electrons (pushed
> out there by the primary field) will try to flow
> both ways (they flow away from each other)
> 
>> If you plunge water up a pipe, and retract the plunger,
> 
>> the water comes back down the pipe upon reversal due to
> 
>> suction and gravity.
> 
> Neither of which strongly affects electrons,
> however, to stay with the analogy, which may be
> useful.
> 
>> Doesn't the reversal part of the oscillation in the
> 
>> secondary have some type of voltage pull on the topload???
> Indeed.  The voltage on the top terminal rises and
> 
> falls.  Current does leave the base of the coil.
> However this takes time.
> 
> For the case where breakout occurs: consider the pipe
> instead of a cap, it has a balloon.  Push it HARD
> enough and the balloon bursts.
> 
> best
> dwp
> 
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