Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Terry,I've seen at least one schematic of a TC being used as a transmitter where a tap was made into the bottom few turns of the coil at the base and this was used to drive the antenna (of proper length).Gerry R
That would be an incredibly inefficient transmitter as most of the power would go to losses in the coil. An antenna "of the proper length" I assume means something approaching a quarter wavelength - pretty long at say 100 kHz!
Ed