Re: NEW Direct Coupled Tesla Circuit - Looks promising

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

Hi Dan,

On 15 Dec 2003, at 11:56, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > A friend of mine and myself came up with a new directly coupled tesla
 > circuit which from initial looks and simulations looks to be able to
 > overcome the limitations of previous direct coupled tesla resonant
 > circuits and may easily outperform the standard tesla coil.  Sounds
 > too good to be true?  Possibly, but time will tell.  The only pitfalls
 > of this circuit are the high voltage requirements of a few components
 > including the spark gap.
 >
 > I've enclosed a sketch of this topology.  Any comments are
 > appreciated.
 >
 > http://users.snip-dot-net/~liche/directtesla01.jpg

Difficult to tell without some key component values. It looks similar
in principle to some of Tesla's schemes from the CSN. How exactly do
you envisage its working principles (apart from the obvious)?

Malcolm