Re: series or parallel???

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

Tesla list wrote:

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

> One of the characteristics of a series resonant circuit is that each
> component (L and C) sees the same voltage with a phase/time
> displacement is it not? The reactances are the same at resonance and
> the currents are the same so......
>       In both cases, the gap setting determines the voltage the
> transformer is subjected to. In the case where the capacitor is in
> parallel with the transformer however, the transformer sees the full
> primary ringing voltage whereas with the gap in parallel with the
> transformer, the transformer sees momentary transients only.

Note that after the gap quenches high-frequency high-voltage appears across
the power transformer, if a filter is not used. The amplitude is smaller
than during the energy transfer, but far from insignificant.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz