Re: Tesla Coil Formula

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>


Actually what I meant was that the two windings were
not connected in parallel but in series. I'm pretty
sure someone posted a schematic of what I was talking
about last month? Where Tesla showed a flat spiral,
wherein the ending of one coil is connected to the
beginning of the other. Perhaps this arrangement has
less inductance than a single wire coil? Or Maybe
it has a greater magnetic field for the power input?
That's what I was wondering.

Take care:
         ---- Matt Cortner ----"

   The only "advantage" of this configuration is that there will be 
a lot more distributed capacitance and higher losses.  If  the coils 
are connected series aiding the inductance would be four times that 
of a single coil (L ~ N^2).  One of his stranger patents.

Ed