Re: Magnifier first light

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

In a message dated 4/24/03 12:30:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>That is interesting!  No other magnifiers have a separate C2.  Sort of
>suggesting C2 is not needed.  However, maybe the C2 losses are so great it
>is better off without it.  Hard to say which.  At least none of the
>observed performance is worse than a two coil system


Antonio, Terry,

I've done some work in the past with magnifiers using a separate
adjustable C2, but the inductance ratios were not optimized according
to Antonios formulas.  Lou Balint also did similar work at higher
powers than I did.  No improvement in quenching or spark lengths
was seen.  This work had all been discussed on this list a number
of years ago.  It's possible the use of more suitable inductance
ratios, etc will now give some benefit, I don't know.

John