Re: NEW Direct Coupled Tesla Circuit - Looks promising

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Original poster: "K. C. Herrick" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com> 

It's with some presumption that I say anything since I'm s.s.-only, so
far.  But...why the capacitor across the gap?  Fire the gap & it just
gets shorted out--for more sound & fury signifying nothing?  Other than
that, the ckt seems conventional except that you auto-transformer the
primary & secondary, adding (presumably, depending on relative winding
polarity) the primary voltage to that of the secondary.  Nothing wrong
with that, as far as I can see...

Ken Herrick

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:56:05 -0700 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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 > 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
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