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30 BPS, 60 BPS tests




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From:  Malcolm Watts [SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent:  Saturday, March 21, 1998 8:48 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests

Hi Mike,

> From:  Hollmike [SMTP:Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com]
> Sent:  Friday, March 20, 1998 7:08 AM
> To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject:  Re: 30 BPS, 60 BPS tests
> 
> John, all,
>    I have been reading all the arguments about this final charge left on the
> secondary.   Many have said that this cannot happen due to the low DC
> resistance to ground, but one notion came to mind:  As the amplitude of the
> output decays, there is some point where it dies out before the next bang.
> Being that there is a large inductor that resists the change in current, could
> it be possible that a small amount of charge be left in the toroid due to it
> not having enough potential energy to overcome the inductive reactance on that
> last current reversal before it dies out?  This, if possible, could store a
> minute amount of energy until the next bang.  I can't think of any way to test
> this notion, but thought I'd put it forward anyway.
> Mike Hollingsworth

Nice try. Unfortunately, the time constants involved are comensurate 
with the resonant frequency.

Malcolm