I know all about the capacitance and toroid problems, already documents pages of data upon all that already posted to the list some time ago. Its a whole epic in itself unfortunately.
MadK I think had a Q of 2000 , JAVATC was 1000 or so I think, I don't know how to "measure Q", Though I know the coil gain is at least 1,000. based on 1V input and somewhere around 1,000 to 2,000V output. Which really does not make much sense but that's the whole idea of trying something new.
coil Q does not matter too much in classic coils as so many other factors swamp and Q factor tests. Like one cannot just decide to place a high Q coil as a direct swap for a low Q coil and expect it to work, I think in general it is known that high Q coils probably work worse, but you have to re-design the entire setup from bottom up to make use of high Q coils. Probably sticking my neck out on the line, but its what has been concluded over the past year or so of number crunching and design testing.
When I tested coil gain on 1V, that wasn't even a in tune system, single shot pulse testing, at resonance the figures should be a lot higher. Its also on the basis that 100V input will give at least 1,000 times that ( 1000x100 = 100,000V) So worst case isn't to bad, it will output "something" which is all I am really interested in at the moment.
Cheers, Chris----- Original Message ----- From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:25 PM Subject: RE: [TCML] HIGH Q number crunching WIP updateIt might be prudent to think about just what coil parameter really correlates with "performance". You suggest that the output KV would indicate relative performance.
I would point out that an easy way to boost the peak secondary voltage is to minimize secondary capacitance. By conservation of energy, the same input bang translated to a smaller topload capacitance would yield a correspondingly higher voltage. But the experience of anyone who has experimented with different topload sizes is that larger toploads almost always result in longer sparks. Granted, the resulting topload voltage is no doubt lower with the bigger toploads, but it points out that what constitutes "performance" may not be topload voltage.
It's also not clear to me that secondary Q is terribly important to performance, by any measure, in a disruptive coil. For CW coils, it does matter though.
I'm not familiar with how JavaTC arrives at things. Did JavaTC give expected Q's of your competing coils? Have calculated values been validated with actual measurements?
Gray Lau MA, USA
-----Original Message----- From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Swinson Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:31 AM To: Tesla Coil Mailing List Subject: [TCML] HIGH Q number crunching WIP update Hi all,2 PDF files, the first one shows the demo coil in JAVATC but reduced to 0.6J( running on 8KV ) The second pdf shows my current construction for my high Q system. OK I missed out a fair few bits, but according to the results the high Q 80turn coil can easily do just as well as the 895 turn demo coil. For those who want to skip to the point, both designs appear to output the same KV ( well they do math wise). Though I hope my high Q design will actually perform a lot better than a conventional coil... easier said than done, but every step of the way is a calculation nightmare, but getting there!! http://www.future-technologies.co.uk/temp/javatc.pdf http://www.future-technologies.co.uk/temp/javatcQ.pdf http://www.future-technologies.co.uk/IMPULSE/20kvq/ ( a little more info ) There are 2 designs using the same secondary, one is a high Q LV design (100V solid state design) and the listed 20KV design. There is actually alot of work and data to crunch and of course is taking its time to build :-(Currently building a 20KV pulse cap out of tin foil and food tubs, been 10 years since I built one, the good old days ;-)I might also add apologies for the poor pdf print out, and poor WIP hack ofJAVATC too :) Chris _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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