RE: Still confused on LTR sized Caps

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Dan,

The paper at:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/modact/modact.html

shows the operation of an LTR coil.  LTR coils were first predicted by
computer modeling.  The "hard theory" is all MicroSim models...  But the
"soft theory" is that the coil is using resonant charging to not only
discharge the primary cap but to extract extra energy out of the giant
inductance of the NST (P=1/2 x I^2 x L) much like an inductive kick effect.
 This forces more current faster into the primary cap to charge it with
about 2.5 times the energy but still at 120BPS.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 03:28 PM 8/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
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>Secondly, why are LTR sized caps used in the
>>first place and what are their benefits?
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>LTR caps are "Larger Than Resonanat" cap values that allow higher power to
>the system especially with sync rotary gaps.  With a rotary gap, you can
>charge about 2.5 times the cap to the same voltage to get 2.5 times the
>power.  The values and the number of Geek Group caps used for variuous
>transformer gap configurations is at:
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>>>>>>>I'm still confused as to how a cap 2.5 times larger than the standard
>resonant cap would be able to be fully charged
>in one 60Hz cycle with a synch rotary gap as opposed to a standard static
>gap. Anyone have some more "hard theory" regarding this???
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>Dan
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