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Hi Ken,A Primary:Secondary k of 0.4 may be somewhat problematic from an insulation standpoint. It's comparable to the coupling used in magnifier driver transformers, and these can be prone to P:S flashovers with air insulation.
Try loosening the P:S coupling to 0.2 - 0.3 and extending the simulation time to 2-3 msec to allow the secondary to ring up over a longer time. You may be able to achieve similar voltage output without the need for excessively high coupling coefficients (and potentially heroic field control and insulation techniques).
Bert Ken Herrick wrote:
More accurately, Re: Question for single-resonance solid-staters--of which there seem to be mighty few still around. Having been involved in deciding on series or parallel single-resonance with synchronized primaries (from secondary feedback), I've received good advice recently but have thought to make a simple simulation to further pursue it. Ref. the following link. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28799314/TCRB3/KCH-Screenshot%20-%204_24_2015.jpg Two anti-phase drives of 300V each drive 2 identical primary coils. The transformer is a simulation of a Tesla coil (with the secondary inductance of my actual coil) and its top-load. The secondary Fr is what's calculated for those L & C values--absent any primary influence. In the chart, I started out at primary:primary k = 1 and primary/primary:secondary k = 0.8. Ran a 1ms simulation, measured the maximum, entered that into the chart, etc. Finding 35KV as the maximum in that column, I proceeded leftward then upward similarly, reaching the sweet spot of the one k = 0.9 and the other, 0.4. I then set R1 to 100K, just the once, and ran that again. That seemed to show that paralleling primaries closely together and setting a rather loose coupling to the secondary yields the best response (and the easiest way to do it). I just note I made an error on the chart, substituting +144K for *144K in the notation. Won't bother changing it... This seems to further tell me that I don't have to series the primaries to create 1 effective coil but rather can configure them just physically & electrically in parallel. Comments, anyone? KCH _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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