Re: [TCML] Energy accumulation on TC.

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Antonio:

Has anyone ever immersed a Tesla oscillator in liquid nitrogen or other
very cold substance to see what kind of Q and voltage gain is possible
with super conductivity?

Regards,

Dr. Resonance



> Gerardo Lezcano wrote:
>> Have someone on The List, experimented with capacitive discharges from
>> primary to secondary, at such a high rate, and in tight synchronization,
>> so sucessive bangs occur in phase, promoting reactive power increase
>> over time, indefinitely, until spark breaks out, no matter how big and
>> smooth topload is?
>>
>>   Why is this not possible?  Mechanical systems exhibit this phenomena
>> (Tacoma Bridge).
> If you build a "solid state" Tesla coil and drive it at one of its
> resonance frequencies, you get this. But in no system the energy
> accumulates indefinitely, because there are always losses that limit the
> maximum amplification of the excitation that can occur. This limit is
> associated to the "quality factor" Q of the system at that resonance
> frequency. It's a common misconception to believe that unlimited energy
> accumulation is possible due to resonance. This would happen only in  a
> perfectly lossless system. It's true, however that mechanical systems
> can quite easily be built with quality factors high enough to cause
> destruction of the system with excitations that would look harmless, as
> the case of that bridge, or the case of a singer that breaks a glass. A
> Tesla coil can have resonances with Qs in the thousands, and so an
> excitation with hundreds of Volts can produce a terminal voltage in the
> 100 kV - 1 MV range. More is very difficult to achieve.
>
> Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz
>
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