Re: DRSSTC Magnifier Mark 1

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Original poster: "Paul B. Brodie" <pbbrodie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Steve,
That sounds great. I couldn't get to your site to look at the setup. I was 
wondering about magnifiers in general. From what I have gleaned from the 
Internet and the archives, a magnifier doesn't produce any more sparks, or 
rather longer sparks, than a standard two coil system. So, does a magnifier 
magnify anything?? I always thought what Tesla described was an energy gain 
from nothing sort of scheme and quite impossible. Can you shed any light on 
this for me? Am I misunderstanding something? (As usual!) Anyone else help 
me on this? Thanks.
Paul
Think Positive

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Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:39 PM
Subject: DRSSTC Magnifier Mark 1

> Original poster: Steve Ward 
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>
> Hey guys!
>
> I just built my first magnifier of any sort, and of course its DRSSTC
> driven ;-).  I should mention that i have NO idea what im doing when
> it comes to magnifier design... i just thought i'd try something and
> see how it goes.  Worked great!  Check out the page i made for it
> (includes spark pics!)
>
> 
<http://www.stevehv.4hv.org/DRSSTCmag1.htm>http://www.stevehv.4hv.org/DRSSTCmag1.htm
>
> The magnifier seems to be pretty well behaved.  My max spark length so
> far is about the same as when it was a 2-coil system.  That is, 35"
> from a 11" tall resonator ;-).  Its just that now the sparks arent
> always hitting the strike ring!  :-).  I might just have to move up to
> a full-bridge drive to really get the sparks flowing!  There isnt so
> much of a limit now that the coil can be elevated off the ground more.
>
> The magnifier required a lower tuning than before, which is what i
> expect since i have more effective leakage L to resonate there, as
> well as more capacitance.
>
> This was just a "test", cooler things should come along soon, need to
> order some magnet wire!  Whats also nice is that the conversion from
> 2-coil to 3-coil was very easy!
>
> Questions and comments welcome.
>
> Steve Ward
>
>