I just finished the DC resonant charging circuit for a planned medium tesla
coil project. It is 3-phase powered and today I started testing it with
reduced power and a dummyload in place of the primary coil, which will be
installed later. The dummyload consists of several 240V 500W halogen bulbs,
which are glowing very nice and smoothly :-) So on the first glance, it
seems to work well for testing.
But the question is, how does such a dummyload with a high resistance (let's
say 500-1000Ohms when glowing) influence the behavior of the charging
circuit? My guess is, that the capacitor never can discharge completely into
this dummyload during each bang and still have much of its charge after each
bang... So the drawn power should be much higher, when using the real tesla
setup later, instead of this dummyload?