Re: Tesla Coil Blunderbusses

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/6/01 10:15:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

>   
>   I still can't believe that the added resistance has any measurable
>  effect on the resonant frequency of a secondary which has a high enough
>  loaded Q to couple any useful power from the primary.  

Ed, all,

You're probably correct.

>  As for lowering the resonant
>  frequency of the primary, that may be required for maximum power
>  transfer when the loading increases, even without streamers.  I should
>  look up my notes on the subject but have been too lazy.

Oh that's an interesting thought.  I hadn't heard about that before, about
needing to lower the primary resonant frequency for max power transfer,
even without streamers.  I'd be glad to hear more details about this
either from you or someone else.

Thanks
John Freau

>  
>  Ed

Ed,

You're probably correct.