Re: DC Tesla Coil output

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

Hi Chris,

It is all the same.  When a gap fires the cap is charged to a given 
voltage, say +10000V.  For that moment in time, the cap voltage looks just 
like DC to the coil.  If the cap is -10000V the next firing or +10000 
again, it really does not matter.  You second question is messy ;-))  but see:

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/modact/modact.html

Cheers,

         Terry

At 11:56 AM 7/26/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>It's been a while since I've asked a newbie question, so I guess it's time 
>again. =D Anyway, if you input pulsed DC into a tesla coil, (like a 
>voltage doubled MOT coil) is the final output (spark) still pulsed DC or 
>does it switch back to AC? Can anybody also expalin why it outputs 
>whatever it outputs? Thanks again!
>
>
>-Chris