Re: pulsed lightning

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

Hi Harvey, all,

On 17 Nov 2003, at 7:17, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: Harvey Norris <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > --- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 >  > Original poster: "Malcolm Watts"
 >  > <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz>
 >  >
 >  > On 16 Nov 2003, at 11:37, Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  >  > Original poster: robert sauer
 >  > <thcduke-at-optonline-dot-net>
 >  >  >
 >  >  > is there a way to store the energy from a tc
 >  > without letting it
 >  >  > disapate into the atmosphere. and pulse it in one
 >  > gaint bult of
 >  >  > lightning.
 >  >
 >  > Yes. A _large_ coil and giant topload with a large
 >  > ROC are required
 >  > together with either a very substantial
 >  > disruptive-type primary
 >  > energy or a CW feed to ring the system up with a
 >  > modest power source.
 >  >
 >  > Malcolm
 > Can you describe the possibility of a CW feed? Are you
 > saying that if we had a "continuous wave" or a
 > sinusoidal AC form that was resonant to the secondary
 > by the length of wire and internal capacitance, or the
 > usual TC parameters, that it would act the same as a
 > tesla coil? How would one procure such an input
 > signal, would it be an amplified signal from a signal
 > generator? or are you speaking of very large
 > secondaries where it might be possible to employ high
 > frequency alternators?

I thought the original questioner was asking how a TC might be made
to accumulate a store of energy and it appears I misread what was
being asked. My apologies. What in fact was being asked was how one
might store the output of a TC. The obvious answer as others have
already said is to forget the TC altogether and build a Marx bank.

Malcolm

 > My second question gets more preponderous. If we had
 > that input signal, shouldn't it be possible to
 > directly line couple the secondary to that input, by
 > passing the need for the Primary?  But this would
 > leave the problem that the top terminal must be free
 > to vibrate, so we couldnt hook both polarity
 > connections to the secondary, so do you think only a
 > single grounded connection to the CW source, (a polar
 > or one onded circuit) would cause the secondary to
 > oscillate?
 >       Or would it make more sense to simply run L and C
 > in series on the primary, without an arc gap. That in
 > turn might imply that the source would also need to be
 > current limited, due to the low resistance of the
 > primary?
 > Sincerely HDN
 >
 >
 >