Re: SSTC, Modes and soft switching

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq-at-uol-dot-com.br> 

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com>

 > *You can prove this by considering impedance matching. As the streamer
 > grows, its input impedance decreases, so the power delivered to it increases
 > and it continues to grow. However, once the streamer impedance gets equal to
 > the output impedance of the coil, any further growth would DECREASE the
 > power delivered to it. Hence no further growth is possible.

If the system is designed to behave as a pure transformer at the driving
frequency, and if the reactive elements don't change, the load sees the
impedance of the driver only (in parallel with a resonant circuit), and
there is no current limiting.
This happens with the designs shown in my web site.
(http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/sstc.html)

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz