Re: Fwd: [jlnlabs] TESLA COIL REVISED6

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

"By reducing the number of turns in your secondary, you are reducing the
inductance.  Maintaining a constant primary side of your coil, you will
need
to increase
the topload of your secondary to maintain resonance.  Now since GAIN =
SQRT
(C1/C2) it is fairly obvious that by increasing C2 you are decreasing
the
maximum
theoretical gain of your secondary.

Dan"

	Note that, if both primary and secondary are in tune, the secondary to
primary inductance ratio can be used instead.  However, since the energy
in the secondary was stored in the primary CAPACITOR before the gap
fired, I prefer to think in terms of the capacitance ratio.

Ed