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Re: Any Very High Freq. TCs?
Hi Steven,
> Original Poster: Steven Ivy <adder_black_the-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> I have been looking for a while and I have yet to see any real mention
> of the significance of the overall operating frequency of a TC other
> than it is best to have the primary and secondary resonances tuned to
> the same frequency. I was just wondering if the standard TC topology
> is still useful at very high frequencys like at 1 Mhz or even much
> higher? In principal I don't see any reason why the whole concept
> should not scale nicely and produce a perfectly good high performance
> design that would only need to be a small fraction of the size of the
> ones we usually see. It would be a lot of fun to have half a million
> volts at 1 GHz operating on my kitchen table : ) Is there some
> particular flaw in this scaling idea other than the difficulty in
> producing a spark gap capable of operating at these very high
> frequencys.
Conventional TC technology:
There is a problem assuming one wants a physically small machine :
how do you prevent 1/2MV from arcing over a secondary a few inches
long?
There is a second problem: to get any real energy into the
primary, the cap value would have to be such that the primary
inductance was vanishingly small.
You could do something with waveguides but I'm not sure how you'd
handle 1/2MV. However, there may be ways around these obstacles I've
not thought of. Be interested to hear what others have to say.
Malcolm