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Jan, did you already consider the work Paul Nicholson performed about the Tesla-Resonator coil ? It seems the most complete treatment of the subject IMHO. See Paul's TSSP website at: http://abelian.org/tssp/ Regards, Kurt -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Tesla <tesla-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx> Im Auftrag von jan@xxxxxxxx Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. Mai 2019 18:38 An: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [TCML] What´s the current standpoint on quarter wave versus lumped secondary modeling Hi, I recently made a very simple measurement on my coil www.sthlmteslacoil.se <http://www.sthlmteslacoil.se> with my IR-thermometer. After a few minutes of running, the top of the secondary was at room tempoerature (20 degrees), while the bottom part was at 30 degrees celsius. I can´t find any other explanation besides that the current could be much higher at the bottom part and therefore cause local resistive heating of the magnet wire. What is the current standing in the debate about tesla coils being quarter wave resonators as opposed to simple lumped LC-circuits? If they are quarter wave resonators the current would be much higher at the bottom, but not if they could be modeled as lumped circuits. The main documents I have found from when the debate was hot twenty years ago are these: <http://hotstreamer.deanostoybox.com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/smallar/smallar4.ht ml> http://hotstreamer.deanostoybox.com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/smallar/smallar4.htm l www.tuks.nl/pdf/Reference_Material/Corum/RF%20Coils,%20Helical%20Resonators% 20and%20Voltage%20Magnification%20by%20Coherent%20Spatial%20Modes%20-%202001 .pdf <http://www.tuks.nl/pdf/Reference_Material/Corum/RF%20Coils,%20Helical%20Res onators%20and%20Voltage%20Magnification%20by%20Coherent%20Spatial%20Modes%20 -%202001.pdf> They both seem quite convincing to me, but are totally copntradictory. What is the current standpoint on these issues? Are there any alternative explanations to the heating of the bottom part of my coil? Regards, Jan Stockholm, Sweden _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla