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Re: In search for a better PRIMARY
Original poster: Vardan <vardan01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Gerry,
You may be able to resolve the racing arc issue now.
You know the di/dt of the primary coil.
You know the coupling to any arbitrary ring along the secondary.
You know the inductances.
You have a well known coil situation that is apparently close to the
edge to study.
If we assume the racing arc occurs in say the first 1/4 cycle
(probably in the first micro second!), then the other resonances and
harmonics have no effect since they have not had time to setup yet.
Thus, the voltage gradient along the secondary in the first instant
of firing is now taking into full account the primary to secondary
geometry and coupling...
MandK can be set up to find the data in a single run and you can
modify the MANDK.INI file for further control. You can just make the
high increment the same as you coil section increment to calculate
the right data directly.
http://hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/Programs/MANDKV31.ZIP
http://hot-streamer.com/TeslaCoils/Programs/MANDKV31.PDF
The coupling/length output data file can probably be imported to a spreadsheet.
Thus, you should be able to graph the Voltage/UnitLength along the
secondary for any primary to secondary configuration in the first
instant the gap fires and from there determine if that is causing the
racing arcs.
If one cleans the gaps, the initial di/dt in the primary coil my
increase. Thus your gap cleaning may indeed have increased the
change for secondary racing arcs.
I have always felt that the racing arc issue was a matter of pure
transformer action. So maybe you can prove me right :D
Cheers,
Terry
At 11:53 PM 8/9/2006, you wrote:
Hi All,
Terry just put a writeup I did on my investigations using JavaTC
into what may be a better primary concept. It is located at:
<http://hot-streamer.com/temp/GerryReynolds/In_search_of_a_better_primary.pdf>http://hot-streamer.com/temp/GerryReynolds/In_search_of_a_better_primary.pdf
If the idea works out, it may allow for higher coupling without
inducing racing arcs.
Please feel free to comment or criticize (hopefullly constructively)
and If anyone is willing to try the idea, I would be willing to consult.
Gerry R