Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Hi Greg,I think if we force quench, we are developing losses elsewhere in the coil. But, and here's the rub, get a system to "naturally" quench at 1st notch, and then you have what I would think is a perfect system. That would be a pretty cool goal to achieve.
Take care, Bart
This is not unprecedented. Years ago on his web site Gary Lau reported his single static sucker gap had very low losses, resulting in a high Q primary circuit. He also found that quenching was awful, yet his NST-based coil performed very well! From where did we learn the dogma that extraordinary measures must be taken with our coils & spark gaps to achieve first notch quenching? Seems like many "real" Tesla coils work great without any regard to quenching! Greg