Paul Nicholson wrote:
It has been confirmed in the case of energy conversion systems, operating in a low mode as 1:2:3. For a system operating in a high mode, it is really not clear if an advantage exists. Maybe a somewhatIt is usually accepted by coilers that 3-coil systems can outperform a 2-coil system (or at least, they can stand up to more power?) but it has not been confirmed experimentally that multi-mode tuning is the reason for better performance.
faster (less cycles) energy transfer.
This is something that I suspect that may have some effect. What would be the effect of "shaking" the charge on a developing streamer with the higher-frequency electric field from the overtones?There are other factors and possibilities. For example, splitting the resonator into a secondary and tertiary and applying strong coupling to the secondary will produce a lot more overtone content - for geometrical reasons. Do these HF components contribute to streamer channel heating? Hotter, brighter breakout would be a general result, not requiring specific tuning of the overtones.
There is also the question of what happens in a magnifier after the quenching of the spark gap. The secondary voltage is not the smooth decaying sinusoid of a Tesla coil. It has two tones, not one, and the voltage over the "transmission line" may rise above the limit during the energy transfer transient.
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