Re: Waveguide 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>


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Subject: Re: Waveguide TC


 > Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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 > Which is what a Tesla coil is, is it not?
Jolyon.

 >
 > One can also make a transmission line that's about a quarter wavelength
 > long and drive it with a suitable matching network at one end which is
 > shorted, leaving the other end open. The line acts as an impedance
 > transformer using Zout*Zin = Zline^2, and if Zin is really small, Zout is
 > really big, implying high voltage for a given power (or, another way of
 > looking at it, you set up a standing wave in a high Q resonator (i.e. the
 > transmission line).
 >
 >