Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.

["Gary Peterson" <g.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Gerardo,

You wrote,
> Have someone on The List, experimented with capacitive discharges from 
> primary to secondary, at such a high rate, and in tight synchronization, 
> so successive bangs occur in phase, promoting reactive power increase over 
> time, indefinitely, until spark breaks out, no matter how big and smooth 
> topload is?

I won't answer your question with another question, and the fact of the 
matter is that it's quite easy to get the break rate up high enough to 
produce a completely undamped or continuous wave.  One way is to gang a 
number of staggered break disks together on the same shaft so they make and 
break the primary circuit sequentially.  The easiest way for the 
experimenter to achieve CW operation is to use a solid-state Tesla coil.

Now that I have succeeded in continuing to pull this thread off topic, I 
will say that I'm interested in reading the answer to your question as well.

Regards,
Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.


I think that high rep-rate synchronized operation was used in the early 
spark gap transmitters to achieve a near-CW mode of operation.  It is 
difficult but possible, but since breakout tends to occur on most of our 
coils anyway through corona, racing sparks, or conventional streamers, it's 
not clear that there's much more to be gained.  What is it that you're 
trying to achieve?

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Gerardo Lezcano
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:11 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.
>
> Have someone on The List, experimented with capacitive discharges from 
> primary
> to secondary, at such a high rate, and in tight synchronization, so 
> sucessive bangs
> occur in phase, promoting reactive power increase over time, indefinitely, 
> until
> spark breaks out, no matter how big and smooth topload is?
>
>   Why is this not possible?  Mechanical systems exhibit this phenomena 
> (Tacoma
> Bridge).

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