RE: question about "lambda" (fwd)

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From: T476202 A. Wang 2007 <tangara_02@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: question about "lambda" (fwd)

Can't reply your first question, but

For your second question, it was Steve Connor(UK) who put this on the web. 
When you have a coil in perfect resonance, streamers breaking out ADD TO THE 
TOPLOAD CAPACITANCE. So the resonant frequency changes. If you you de-tune 
your coil, the topload breakout will pull the coil in tune. If you keep 
de-tuning, there will be a point where no breakout will occur.

You can read the original text about this issue 
athttp://www.scopeboy.com/tesla/t21m.html




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>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:25:18 -0500
>From: Matthew Boddicker <shmerpleton_town@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Subject: question about "lambda"
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>Hi, this is Matthew Boddicker
>It's either a brain-fart or just a lack of reading the right information,
>but what exactlty does "1/2 lambda" and "1/4 lambda" mean exactly?
>
>Also, probably tied into the same subject, I was tuning my coil by moving 
>an
>alligator clip connecting the wire from the primary coil to the capacitor
>from the max inductance down to the minumum. I was getting very little
>sparks at the beginning, even when I had  the primary circuit the same
>calculated frequency as the secondary. The capacitor is 4.075 picofarads.
>The "tuned" circuit, to match the same frequency of 438 kHz secondary, is
>being given an inductance of 32 microhenrys. But at this inductance (a
>grounded rod was held 3.5" away from the top load), there was a tiny bit of
>purple corona. This observation was consistant until I hit an inductance of
>11microhenrys when many sparks broke out between the top load and the
>grounded object. This frequency for the primary is calculated at 752kHz.
>That's over 300kHz off! why does that work!?!?!
>
>Thanks,
>Matthew Boddicker
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