Gregory,
Welcome back! I too took a sabbatical from coiling and am back at it
recently.
My understanding is that the secondary coil exists to:
--increase voltage by transformation (no resonance)
--increase energy transfer from primary to secondary due to tight coupling
(tight coupling prohibits resonance anyway)
So yes, tune the primary to the extra coil.
Here is some good reading Richard Hull on magnifiers that should help a lot.
Page 1: http://www.stargazing.net/Astroman/Magnifier.html
Page 2: http://www.stargazing.net/Astroman/Magnifier1.html
Good luck!
~Dan
Kansas City area
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Gregory Peters <greg.j.peters@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi All,
> Well after a few years off I'm back into coiling. I've been into coils on
> and off since the mid 90s and it's great to see the pupman list still going
> strong! How many members are there these days I wonder?
> Anyway, I have a magnifier project in mind and am interested to know about
> the finer details of tuning these beasts. Is the primary normally tuned to
> match the resonant frequency of the extra coil alone (plus some for
> streamer/corona loading), or is it tuned to match the aggregate resonant
> frequency of the combined secondary and extra coil? Or somewhere else
> completely?!
> It seems like if the primary + secondary system is truly meant to act as a
> transformer base driving the extra coil, then the tuning should be closer
> to that of the extra coil alone than it is to the combined secondary and
> extra coil system. Hope that makes sense!
> Any advice would be most appreciated!
> Regards,
> Greg.
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