Re: El Supremo

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Original poster: "K. C. Herrick by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com>

See below...

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:28:44 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "tesla by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
> <tesla-at-paradise-dot-net.nz>
> 
> Is this simply
> Higher volts equals more energy availabilty per bang so for given 
> bang
> smaller C reqd hence higher freq operation
> Rgds
> Ted L in NZ

In El Supremo, the capacitance of C has nothing to do with the frequency
of operation (i.e., Fr or near-Fr of the secondary).  "C" and the
primary's L do not resonate: C's voltage polarity never changes, it only
exponentially declines in amplitude during each spark event.

Ken Herrick

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> The big thing "I" see here is that with only a minor rearrangement,  
> you
> have 2400 volts instead of 600 driving the secondary in sort of a
>  Marx configuration.  That allows higher frequencies (far less 
> secondary
> loss),
> and lower loss in the primary!!!  Just what my OLTC needs!!!!
> 
> You lose me here.  Do you mean, charge each of the 4 sections to 600 
> V
> instead of 150?  No problem there, conceptually.  But how does that 
> allow
>  for higher frequency?
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