Re: The 1500t secondary myth

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Original poster: "Mark Broker" <mbroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I dug up this post in the archives.  I know there is more information in 
the archives if one goes searching.
http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2003/January/msg00844.html

As I said when I suggested his TC a week or two ago as an exception to this 
Zo sweet spot, Marc used a lot of atypical design parameters with this TC 
that may have lead to the extraordinary performance he claimed.

Cheers!

Mark Broker
Chief Engineer, The Geek Group


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:24:01 -0700, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: FutureT@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 12/13/04 1:30:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Steve, Paul, all,
>
> Someone mentioned the other day that Marc's coil tended
> to give extraordinary spark length results.  I looked at Paul's site but
> didn't see evidence of this.  Does anyone have evidence of
> its outperformance?  Does anyone know what breakrate
> it ran at?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
> > Original poster: Paul Nicholson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Steve Conner wrote:
> >
> > > The one thing that could sink this theory big time
> > > (if it's true) is the late Marc Metlicka's 3000 turn coil.
> > > This would have a Zo much above 36k unless it had a 2"
> > > former or a topload the size of a two bedroomed house.
> >
> > Marc's 3k turn coil is documented under the label mm3p in
> >
> >   http://www.abelian.demon.co.uk/tssp/cmod/
> >
> > At the secondary resonant frequency of 38.4kHz, we have
> > Lee = 352mH, Cee = 44.7 pF, so Zo = 88.7k ohms.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Nicholson
> > --