Re: Flourescent tube primary

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Original poster: "mercurus2000" <mercurus2000-at-cox-dot-net> 

Your curiousity is well warranted, Tesla had plans for using ionized gases
for his primaries instead of copper, in his Colorado notes he was speaking
of the advantages of using something of that sort over standard metal
primaries.
Adam
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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:19 AM
Subject: RE: Flourescent tube primary


 > Original poster: "explorecraft" <pariah-at-explorecraft-dot-com>
 >
 >
 >
 > Obsessed by curiousity:
 >
 > I tried a 22w circle (Philips 3A 1130 Lm) (230vac mains)
 >   circular flourescent bulb driven by
 >   one of those power-saver thingies
 >   advertised to allegedly lower the power draw.
 > Slopped on a 36 turn coil laid directly on the tube,
 >   and see only 6 volts p-p, interesting waveform though.
 > More later after I build a properly resonant coil...
 >
 > Not that this could be a profitable exploration,
 >   but for some reason I find it interesting
 >
 > cheers
 >
 >  > Sent: Monday, 2004 January 19 08:02
 >  > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > Subject: Re: Flourescent tube primary
 >  > Original poster: Harvey Norris <harvich-at-yahoo-dot-com>
 >  >  > Original poster: "explorecraft"
 >  >  > <pariah-at-explorecraft-dot-com>
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I haven't seen this discussed anwhere,
 >  >  >   but has anyone ever tried using
 >  >  >   (one or array) of circular flourescent tubes
 >  >  >   as a primary for a stepup transformer?
 >  >  > My guess is that the inductance is lost to ions
 >  >  >   absorbing energy inside the tube.
 >  > I would imagine the amperage conductions in the tubes
 >  > are rather miniscule compared to the amperage
 >  > conductions with a copper primary. Interestingly
 >  > however the inductive reactance of a neon discharge
 >  > can be found by placing a known high impedance coil in
 >  > series with the neon, and noting how the addition of
 >  > that inductive reactance changed the circuit from its
 >  > prior state of single loaded neon discharge.
 >  > HDN
 >
 >