Re: TC quesions-Now a Question

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Original poster: "Steve Greenfield by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alienrelics-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Perhaps, but just because it has 4 wheels doesn't make
it -just- a car. It is not transformer action that
gets the high voltage, as the voltage out is not
directly related to turns ratio. There is limited
coupling.

Just trying to clarify for the original poster so he
doesn't get the impression that a Tesla coil is just a
transformer.

Steve Greenfield

--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Parpp807-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> In a message dated 1/22/02 9:43:24 AM Central
> Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
> writes:
> 
> Hi Steve,
> You use the generaly accepted terms of primary and
> secondary. In common
>  usage in the electrical sciences aren't these terms
> immediately associated 
> with a transformer? That's the quesion  er,
> question.  If you look in Terman 
> or any other similar text you will find many
> applications of a transformer in 
> tuned circuits, but it is still the
> primary-secondary arrangement known as a 
> transformer. Check out the book, The Complete
> Patents of Nikolas Tesla. See 
> page 246 and neighboring pages. Our Founding
> Father uses the same terms to describe the
> transformer action. A TC is a
> tuned transformer.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralph Zekelman
> 
> > Not a bad explanation, except that it is -not- a
> >  transformer. The primary has high capacitance and
> low
> >  inductance and so has very high circulating
> currents
> >  and relatively low voltage. The secondary has low
> >  capacitance and high inductance so it has much
> lower
> >  circulating currents and correspondingly higher
> >  voltage.
> >  
> >  With the right combinations of everything, both
> >  primary and secondary resonate at the same
> frequency
> >  and so energy transfers from the primary to the
> >  secondary via very loose coupling, resulting in
> very
> >  high voltages. Tada, huge arcs.
> >  
> >  Steve Greenfield
> >  
> 
> 
> 


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