Re: Superconducting tesla coil (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: Superconducting tesla coil (fwd)
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• Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:46:28 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:32:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re:  Superconducting tesla coil (fwd)

"Subject: Superconducting tesla coil

Just as an idea what would happen if you used superconductive wire for the
secondary and the primary?  Q would go towards infinity, so how would you tune
it?  There would be no losses due to resistance so you could use really small
wire and have lots of insulation.  I wander if anybody on the list has funding
to try this?"

	What would happen is that the spark gap resistance in the
primary and the shunt loading due to the discharge would dominate
the "losses" as they do now, and there would be NO difference at
all in the performance.....

Ed

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