Re: Superconductivity

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Nele,

The losses in a TC are mostly due to streamers and the spark gap.  After
those two, the resistve losses in the primary coil, wiring, and caps is a
big factor.  If one could could make those parts super conductors there may
be some advantage.  Of course, just getting another neon transformer could
make up for those losses too, so the super conductor stuff would have to be
fairly easy to make it worthwhile for the average person to try.

If you could make the spark gap (which can waste up to 50% of a coil's
power!) more effecient, then you would realy have something!

Cheers,

	Terry

At 06:45 PM 6/28/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>73
>After some time reading the people`s comments on the list, I realize that
>there is still one big problem in increasing the coils efficiency: everyone
>have to realize that the basic design of the coil didn`t change for a really
>long time(don`t want to mention how long). I heard about problems with the
>top loads, conductors, primary power...... we have to move a bit further
>from where we are I think. After some researching I realize that we could
>build a whole new area of research in the field of Tesla coils. How? By
>using the superconductivity. With no looses at all!!!
>Recently, I have build some machines based on the principles of
>superconductivity, that works more than great, and are a scientific proof of
>what could be done with TC, if we use superconductors as a new technology.
>This field is very problematic, and it needs some argumented polemics. So,
>if anyone else on the list had some experiences with this, and want to open
>a new area of research, he is more then welcome.
>
>Kind regards to all,
>Nele!
>