Re: nobody knows whos maggie at fla teslathon?

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Original poster: "colin.heath4" <colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com> 

hi antonio,
                 thanks for the reply i now understand what the 6th order
system is now. i asked as im building a magnifier at present with a tight
coupled L1 and L2 and using a very small C2. i was told by richie burnett
about the trapped energy in C2.
many thanks
colin heath
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Subject: Re: nobody knows whos maggie at fla teslathon?


 > Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
 >
 > Tesla list wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: "colin.heath4" <colin.heath4-at-ntlworld-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  > please excuse my ignorance! i have done a lot of reading of magnifiers
but
 >  > have heard nothing of a 6th order magnifier.
 >  > what is this?
 >
 > A conventional Tesla transformer has a primary capacitor and inductor,
 > and a secondary inductor and (distributed) capacitor. Four reactive
 > elements, and so a 4th-order system.
 > A magnifier adds to this a third coil and its distributed capacitance
 > (L3, C3), and keeps the capacitance associated with the secondary coil
 > (C2). It has then 6 independent reactive elements, and so is a
 > 6th-order system.
 >
 > It's common to ignore the secondary capacitance in a magnifier, and
 > so the currents at the secondary and third coils are identical
 > (remember that this is a lumped model). Without that capacitor and
 > with L2 and L3 with the same current, it's just a 4th-order system,
 > essentially identical to a conventional Tesla transformer.
 >
 > Studies about the use of magnifier structures in pulsed power
 > applications lead to the conclusion that the C2 capacitance can't
 > be safely ignored, specially in a very tightly coupled transformer.
 > The energy that remains there is never transferred to the output.
 > A procedure was then developed to the design of the 6th-order
 > magnifier, that doesn't leave any energy in L1, C1, L2, C2, and L3
 > when the energy transfer from C1 to C3 is complete.
 >
 > More details about the design procedure can be found at:
 > http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/magnifier.html
 >
 > Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
 >
 >
 >