Re: some new ideas for the SSTC guys

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com> 




Yes, it seems to work very well with a "classic coil" so I thought it might
work with a DRSSTC.

Dr. Resonance

 >
 >  > At the urging of a plasma physics guru from UW-Madison (Paul Nonn for
those
 >  > of you who might remember meeting him at Ed's recent Teslathon), I
removed
 >  > the sec coil and placed it on a stand 10 feet away.  I used a 7 inch
corona
 >  > ball on the bottom to prevent any corona and used a single tap which I
 >  > attached to the "normal" primary coil.  With some re-tuning it was
again
 >  > spraying out 8 ft sparks.
 >
 > If I understand, you are proposing a kind of drsstc without a
 > transformer,
 > but using a direct connection.
 > Surely works, as works as an alternative to a normal Tesla coil too.
 > The only problem is that the voltage gain becomes attached to the number
 > of
 > cycles used in the energy transfer. Not a big problem in a drsstc, since
 > these systems apparently can use some extra cycles in the energy
 > transfer
 > without much trouble with heavy losses in a spark gap. In the other
 > hand,
 > they need higher voltage gain to compensate for the smaller input
 > voltage.
 >
 > Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
 >
 >
 >