Re: Homemade chokes

["Bill Lemieux" <gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

On that fateful day 8/11/00 12:23 PM, thus spake Tesla list:

> They certainly do when the primary includes a sparkgap which
> is the norm for a disruptive coil. I worked all this out in a
> paper several years ago. It should be in the archives
> somewhere under the heading "PrimaryQ - A Brain Teaser".
> The essence of it is that the gap cannot be modelled as a pure
> resistance because if you include it in series with a tuned
> circuit, the result is not a logarithmic decrement but a
> linear one. You can actually see the linear envelope impressed
> on the secondary e-field as pri-sec energy exchanges proceed
> if you prevent the coil from breaking out.

Excuse me, I thought the original post concerned the Q of the primary alone,
not the entire primary circuit, which I agree is a more complex impedance.

- Gomez

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