Re: New to this...

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Original poster: Gregory Hunter <tesla_39560@xxxxxxxxx>

If you stretch your wire out in a straight line and
ground one end, it will resonate at a particular
fundamental frequency. If you wrap that same length of
wire around a cylinder to form a solenoid and ground
one end, it will have a very different fundamental
resonant frequency, which can only be predicted by
calculation. It's not a stupid question. The quarter
wavelength of wire myth has been passed around as fact
for a long time.

--- Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Original poster: Tyler Pauly <rpggod714@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I have a small coil with tank circuit resonating at
> 275 kHz. One of those handy tesla calculators tells
> me
> that a 1/4 wavelength is 892 feet. Will 892 ft of
> wire on my secondary resonate at 275 kHz, or do I
> have
> to put more wire on to compensate for my top load
> which will lower my freq.? Sorry if it's a stupid
> question.
>                         Thanks for any help,
>                            Tyler Pauly
>
>
>
>


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