Re: 6ga wire vs 1/4 tubing for 900W coil primary?

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmdq@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tesla list wrote:
> Original poster: "Chris Rutherford" <chris1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Hi Carlos,
> Your website is interesting.  I have got a book on network and 
> filter theory, which is now seemingly quite relevant to TC 
> design.  After looking at your magnifier design and theory I 
> realised that Tesla coils may exhibit strange things such as poles 
> and zeros in the frequency domain.

As all linear systems. (At least while the linear approximation works,
and it works.)

> To what degree do complex LC circuits be have like normal LC 
> circuits in terms of phase, currents and voltages when used at high 
> voltage in stead of classical filter voltages? i.e. Could you make a 
> Butterworth filter operate at 500KV, or does the model start to breakdown?

Everything works very well before breakout, and still works as a
good approximation if streamer load is modeled as a series RC load.
Before breakout, the only approximation is that a distributed system
is being modeled as a lumped network. Not a serious problem. More
lumped elements can be added if necessary (not necessary to explain
what happens and for good design approximation).
Note that most of the models in my site ignore losses, and
even so everything works.
After breakout, a nonlinear time varying load is being modeled by
a linear network, what is not so good, but appears to work too.
Note that I have a design for a SSTC that is a Butterworth filter:
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq/tesla/sstc.html

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz