Re: Quadrant Tesla System - Ideas for HV phase shifting?????

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Matt and all,

Yes, of course you will get random streamers to the adjacent corners when
the random phasing happens to support it.  But I still think most of the
streamers will be diagonal because each pair of twins will establish a
fairly continuous ionized path between them and the streamers will tend to
stay in that "lower impedance" path.

But why speculate - how about someone trying the experiment?
--Steve Young

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Subject: Re: Quadrant Tesla System - Ideas for HV phase shifting?????


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>
>
> In a message dated 9/21/02 12:33:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
>
> >
> > Dan and all,
> >
> > Suppose the 4 secondaries were really an independent pair of twins,
> > physically spaced 90 degrees apart and electrically running
asynchronously.
> > I would think that would produce the appearance cited below.  Each pair
> > would have their arcs crossing each other about in the middle, yes?
> >
> > --Steve
>
>
>
> Hi Steve, All,
>        I believe it would be highly unlikely to get crossed arcs in this
> configuration. If you do the geometry, you will see that the opposite pole
of
> each pair is at 40% longer distance from its mate than the adjacent one of
the
> other pair. Even with random phasing it is much more likely that you will
get
> arcs around the square rather than across the diagonals. Unfortunately,
there
> isn't any geometric figure (in 3-D Cartesian space) with more than two
> vertices, where a line drawn through the center is shorter than the
distance
> between two adjacent vertices. I think the best you can hope for would be
four
> or six coils with a grounded sphere in the center and pulse the coils to
it
> sequentially or in pairs..
>
> Matt D.
>
>