Re: Parallel and Series LCR Circuit Qs

["Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

> 
> Original poster: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
> 
> Hi Dick,
> 
> 	"i" have always gone by the assumption that the streamer is a load that
> needs to be feed with as much 'power' as possible.  I have measured the
> streamer impedance of my small coil and Greg Leyh as taken data off his
BIG
> coil that have both have given fairly consistent results for streamer
> impedance.  That being 220K ohms in series with 1 pF per foot of
streamer.
> So the Tesla coil "source" basically needs to be impedance matched to
> supply this "load", optimally.  

Of course, the impedance is time varying too, with the C growing as the
streamer grows....

> 
> So "i" would consider Zsource = Zstreamer to be more important than the
Cp
> to Cs ratio.
>