Re: new coil

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Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

If you pump say 900 watts of power into a primary without a secondary in 
place (or so badly tuned that..),  then about 90% of that power goes into 
that now very bright and loud spark gap 8-))  If your having a bad day, it 
will go into the exploding caps...  I don't think anyone has ever managed 
to blown up a primary coil...

In the case of the DRSSTC, I "think" it will just get recycled and not do 
too much harm if one has all the limits set right..

Cheers,

        Terry


At 05:16 PM 1/27/2005, you wrote:
> In a message dated 1/27/05 7:06:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> >"Just had another thought about your hot primary.  If the coil is out of
> >tune, all of the power is dissipated in the primary circuit (caps, wire,
> >and sparkgap)." What does that mean?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> It means that a very poorly tuned primary is one of the most interesting 
> space heaters you are likely to see anywhere. ;-)) Most of your input 
> energy will be converted directly to heat in the caps and primary coil, 
> and to noise, light, and heat in the spark gap.  A much more efficient 
> fire starter than rubbing two scouts together.;-))
>
> Matt D.