Re: Resonance, and now magnifiers

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Original poster: DRIEBEN-at-midsouth.rr-dot-com 

Bert,

I think I've seen your magnifier on your webpage and noticed the
12" wide aluminum flashing transmission line. It seems that you
would have trouble with corona losses along the edges of the
flashing, considering the thinness of it. I was just wondering
you delt with this or if corona was even a problem?

David Rieben

 >
 > On my large magnifier, I use a 12 inch wide, fifteen foot long
 > strip of
 > aluminum flashing as a transmission line.  The surface area is
 > quite large,
 > because both exposed sides provide capacitance, as opposed to a
 > cylinder
 > which has an inside surface area that is wasted. The magnifier
 > system loves
 > the capacitance, and Paul's explanation does a very good job of
 > explaining
 > why.  The transmission line, if designed as a large capacitance,
 > acts as an
 > additional energy storage device, as well as bringing that 3/4
 > mode
 > resonance more into "tune" with the extra coil/topload.
 >
 > Tesla ,himself, said adding capacitance to the top of the
 > secondary of a
 > magnifier would improve operation (Colorado Springs Notes,
 > September 19
 > 1899 page.)
 >

 >
 > Bert Pool
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