Resonance - what is it? and OLTC stuff

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>

Hi everyone,

I've been familiar with Tesla Coils for about 2 years now, but I realized 
that I really don't know what resonance, and resonant rise actually are. I 
kinda understand how the voltage rises and such, but not fully. Someone care 
to enlighten me?

Also,
I wrote up a how it works on the OLTC page: 

	http://hot-streamer-dot-com/oltc/work.html

If anyone finds anything, I'd be glad to hear about it.

I also noticed, that SAY one of the IGBTs was to let out its smoke, the coil 
would continue to operate safely, correct?  Each IGBT/cap
 pair is independent of the others, so no harm to the others. Sure, It would 
be de-tuned, but whats that matter, when you got a crowd? Am I right?

Good luck everyone,

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Jonathon Reinhart
hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon