R Hull maggey question

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Subject: R Hull maggey question
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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 12:03:31 -0600
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From:  richard hull [SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent:  Tuesday, March 03, 1998 7:08 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: R Hull maggey question

At 11:43 PM 3/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From:  bmack [SMTP:bmack-at-frontiernet-dot-net]
>Sent:  Sunday, March 01, 1998 2:22 PM
>To:  tesla list
>Subject:  R Hull maggey question
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>Hello all,
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>I have been follwing the maggey thread with great interest.
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>I have a few questions about R. Hull's post of 2/23/98, which may clear up
>my confusion (and perhaps others) on the magnifier.
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>1) I memory serves, CSN along with posts on this list have the equlity
>L1C1=L2C2=L3C3.  To me, this implies that the L1, L2 "driver" is a stand
>alone TC, only more damped by the coupling (assuming L3 is not connected).
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Yes, that is what Tesla said at one or two places in his notes and later he
waffled a bit stating that the driver output was due to transformer action.
I think he might have gone through phases of in and out on this matter. RH

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>2) Pictures of magnifier drive coils all indeed have a load ring-or is it a
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>shaped turn?  Your post made no mention of a C2.
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C2 is actually usually considered the interturn winding and sheet
capacitance of the coil itself.  Naturally is a corona ring of some surface
is used and a long heavy transmission line, then additional capacitance will
be added to C2, but this may or may not impact the statement made in (1),
but will impact the primary tune point. RH

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>3) In some of my own investgations,  Using very low energies, I've found
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>the secondaries like to lump, rather than resonate independently such that
>L1C1=(L2+L3)*(C2+C3).  Is this what you experienced?

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For the most part, yes.  Lou Balint sort of proved this effect over 3 years
ago. Duane Bylund stated it sooner in the early 90's.  I always hold my
opinion on this in reserve as I have only worked and tested about 25
magnifier resonator combination since 1991.  Still learning what works and
what doesn't.  RH
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>4) What was the resonant frequency of the better magnifier that used the
>20X5 torroid?

There have been so many combinations. I can't remember, but if that was all
it had for a top load, it was early in our work (1991-92) as I now consider
that an ultra small, almost vanishly small terminal.  Most systems in the
first year, which might have used that small a top loading, were in the
200khz range and ran around 1-2KW.  RH
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>Thanks 
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>Jim McVey
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