Re: topload questions

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Original poster: "Resonance Research Corp. by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>

Adam:

When you add a large topload you lower the res. freq. of the secondary
system, so you need to add considerably more capacitance or inductance in
the primary system.

With large topload increase you usually need to add more capacitance, and
this, of course, requires more power (mA) from your power transformer.

I'm attaching a paper that may give you some guidance.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/Tips%20on%20Tesla%20Coil%20Design

Terry --- this MS Word document has been virus scanned.

Best regards,

Dr. Resonance

Resonance Research Corp.
E11870 Shadylane Rd.
Baraboo,  WI  53913
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 > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
 >
 > I was looking around at some of the really big coils and i noticed that
for
 > their top loads, they were just using chicken wire on the outside of a
 > wooden frame. since the chicken wire is mostly holes, woulden't a big
peice
 > of chicken wire have the same capicatance as a smallish top toroid? My
 > thinking is that the capicatance is caculated by the surface area, and it
 > seems to me that they would need to have a HUGE top load (made of chicken
 > wire) to equal that of a small "regular" top load. Also, say you had a
 > medium coil that with a medium top load threw, 5' sparks. Then, you added
 > 100 turnes to the same pricary coil and put a metal trash can (or person,
 > or any large object) on the top of the secondary, could you tune the coil
 > again, so that you would get 5' sparks from the big object on top? or
would
 > you have to get a much more powerful coil?
 > Thanks
 > Adam
 >
 >