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Re: Tesla Twin
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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 19:55:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Tesla Twin
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>Correct me if I'm wrong but you actually connected the resonator
>bases together and then connected that connection to the top of the
>driver coil?? That is not the way to do it. My way is *guaranteed* to
>work. The correct connection for twin free resonators is to connect
>one to one end of the driver tansformer secondary and the other to
>the other end. Currents at each end of the driver are in opposite
>phase and mirror each other. You can see from this that winding
>direction doesn't matter and that any magnetic coupling is
>undesirable. In the twins with one resonator driven, the passive
>resonator is in fact replacing the 1/4 wave ground image.
>
>Malcolm
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This sounds right now....that we assume the other secondary is just an
effective couterpoise.
Richard Hull, TCBOR