Re: Fwd: Re: Calculating streamer breakout of top-loads

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

 >  > answer.  Terry Fritz has a good web page that talks about matching the
 >  > output impedance of the secondary to the streamer impedance that 
maybe sheds
 >  > light on some of the points you bring up.
 >
 > I'm a bit leery about the idea of streamer impedance matching because
 > it is not only dependent on the type of streamer (attached vs air
 > e.g.) but dynamically chooses its own impedance based on charge
 > availability. c.f. the gap for instance. That's my story anyway.
 >
 > Malcolm

	I too have wondered about "impedance matching".  Before streamers form
the secondary Q is relatively high, but once they are there they form a
very nonlinear complex impedance which would be hard to match.  On the
other hand, I do believe that a low-Z secondary will be able to deliver
more power than a higher impedance one.

Ed