RE: Low Impedance Negative Resistance Tesla Coils

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

On 31 Jan 2005, at 7:18, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Ken Jenkins" <thecompman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Just a Thought..
> What if you used super conductive wire to build your Primary &
> Secondary coils, Solenoid wound secondary close coupled. Then put the
> whole thing in Liquid helium or nitrogen... Wouldn't this give you a
> coil with virtually no resistance?? Like I said Just a thought.. Ken
> J.

Virtually being the operative word (some radiation is an inescapable
loss) and even if you could make the coil itself lossless, the
benefits in a SG coil would be swamped by gap losses. I'd be
surprised if it made much difference in a SSTC although as little
resistance as possible in the primary might well make a difference.
The point is, a well-built coil is already pretty good with the bulk
of the losses (ignoring output discharges) occurring in other
components.

Malcolm

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> Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On 28 Jan 2005, at 11:51, Tesla list wrote:
>
>   > Original poster: stork <stork@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   >
>   > I have often been struck by the theoretical implications of
>   negative > resistance in regenerative antennae and have wondered
>   about their > application to TCs.  It would be attractive to design
>   a TC coil where > DC resistance is eliminated and 100% of input
>   power  is devoted to > output reactive power only.  Apparently this
>   concept was not lost on > Tesla as he wrote about it over a year
>   ahead of Armstring and his > early regenerative oscillators.
>   Further thought suggests easy > application to CW tube TCs and even
>   solid state TCs which have caught > our fancy and seem to be the
>   rage of Tesla coiling currently.  And, > rightly so. > >
>   http://www.tfcbooks.com/articles/tws5.htm > > stork
>
> Regeneration requires the use of a power supply to overcome the real
> loss so in terms of power spent you actually only gain a further
> inefficiency. This is quite different to increasing the collecting
> power of an antenna.
>
> Malcolm
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