Re: Re my Fanciful Spark-augmenter

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Original poster: "Kennan C Herrick by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kcha1-at-juno-dot-com>

[KCH's comment -at- end}

On Mon, 21 May 2001 18:32:23 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
writes:
> Original poster: "Charles Hobson by way of Terry Fritz 
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <charles.a.hobson-at-btinternet-dot-com>
> 
> 
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> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 6:31 PM
> Subject: Re my Fanciful Spark-augmenter
> 
> 
> > Original poster: "Kennan C Herrick by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kcha1-at-juno-dot-com>
> >
> > Overnight I re-thought that notion & am asking Terry to replace 
> tcbigspk
> > on  http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/ with a revised version.  Still 
> think
> > there might be some merit in the idea.
> >
> > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/Tcbigspk1.pcx
> > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/Tcbigspk1.gif
> >
> > Comments?...
> >
> > Ken Herrick
> 
> Hi Ken,  My comments:
> 
> I just looked at your circuit (the gif) and wondered how C gets its 
> initial
> charge for the required 1/2V^2C energy. . Unless I am missing 
> something, the
> spark gap and capacitor (C) appear to be shorted out by the spiral 
> coil as
> far as 60Hz or DC or whatever is used to power them.
> 
> Chuck
> 
No, the excitation to C and the inner 7 turns (or however many turns in a
real system) is not 60 Hz or dc but rather ac at the frequency, Fr(low). 
It is the ac that would otherwise exist in a s.s. primary.

Ken 
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