Original poster: "Kurt Schraner" <k.schraner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Gerry,
I've posted about "the Andiruptor" on the TCML on Jan 27th, but it
seems not having triggered the curiosity of the list members. I
consider it belonging to the "original work" type stuff, which Peter
Terren was contrasting to the long treads on i.e. "plastic cup
capacitors". Please see in the archives:
http://www.pupman.com/listarchives/2007/Jan/msg00796.html
or directly on my newer website:
http://twfpowerelectronics.com/%7Ekurt/InductionCoils/induction_coils2.html
my other comments interspersed...
Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Kurt,
My thinking on this was that the electrostatic force between the two
JL rods is always attractive (discounting zero crossing). The rods
seem to have a natural resonance of around 1 Hz. With a sudden
application of power, the attraction is like a unit step function
that will induce a natural response.
Agreed!
I'm not sure what you are really
getting at with the term "eigenresonant frequency". I think there is
only one resonate frequency of the rods and I'm having a hard time
understanding how eigen values come into play. But maybe so. I need
to think about this more. In any case, the major response of the
rods was the fundamental at 1 Hz.
Sorry, probably just _my_ language problem (German-->English). May
be I should just have written "resonant frequency" or "mechanical,
fundamental resonant frequency".
I'm not sure what an Andiruptor is so maybe I dont understand the
setup. I was thinking of a variac driving a PIG driving the JL.
Gerry R.
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Cheers,
Kurt