Modeling a magnifier

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• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 10:06:34 -0600
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From:  Antonio C. M. de Queiroz [SMTP:acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br]
Sent:  Tuesday, February 24, 1998 6:33 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Modeling a magnifier

richard hull wrote:

> An 18" resonator coil was cut in half and one half was isolated and coupled
> by itself to .36 with a primary and the other half set up as a resonator 4
> feet away.  The performed OK with this split setup, but was not stunning.
> Next, the resonator was set atop the driver secondary, otherwise, nothing
> was changed.  The coupling was now measured as .22 with the whole resonator
> as a two coil system.  When fired, the spark length was reduced by about 25%.

The informations in your post are very useful. Just a question: Was the
primary tuned for each version, or was the magnifier primary configuration kept?

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
http://www.coe.ufrj.br/~acmq

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