I understand that the cause is that secondary LC is resonant to the primary. Its just that I find it amazing how Tesla coils do what they do. Just saying:...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 3, 2013 12:32 am
Hi Levi, You're correct! When the secondary is oscillating, energy is actually cycling back and forth between the magnetic field (the inductance) and the...
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McGalliard, Frederick B
freddyboy_9
May 3, 2013 3:47 pm
Levi, in all resonant circuits, the voltage and current are almost completely out of phase. This means when the voltage is high the current is low. This is...
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Saber
leviterande
May 3, 2013 4:38 pm
Thanks Bert! Indeed even a VDG reaches very high power levels in a discharge but of course only in a very minute duration, its all about the stored energy of...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 3, 2013 5:30 pm
Hi Levi, You've got it! ... Exactly!...
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Saber
leviterande
May 3, 2013 10:10 pm
Hello Bert. Good! Alright, I know this sounds like nut and hair splitting but this path seems so far, the only way to try and illustrate my point. so lets...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 4, 2013 2:43 am
Hi Levi, ... Yes. ... Yes, assuming no losses. In reality, each successive peak is a bit less than the previous one due to losses (mainly secondary coil...
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Saber
leviterande
May 8, 2013 12:58 pm
Hi Bert, this is strange, my posts on this group takes days to show up on teh group? but my last post that I have written on 3-4th of May is yet to be show...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 8, 2013 1:17 pm
Hi Levi, That is odd - usually posts show up within minutes of sending unless you are being moderated by the list administrator(s). Sometimes Yahoo Groups does...
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Chris Swinson
exxos_uk
May 8, 2013 9:39 pm
I have noticed odd posts appear at random in my inbox, such as post arrive from 2 or 3 days ago after more recent ones do. Its done that for some time. While...
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Saber
leviterande
May 9, 2013 4:22 am
Hi, oh well, seems like this time my post really got lost in the Aether. its been 5 days and its not shown ye, so anyway lets see if this message now is...
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Saber
leviterande
May 9, 2013 4:23 am
I posted it several hours ago and its not seen on yahoo group either, here is it more time: Everything discussed this far, I understood Ok, Everything we...
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Saber
leviterande
May 9, 2013 4:24 am
Nothing shows up after 2 more tries so Im going to try and cut it up into several parts : (although there will be a risk of misunderstandings now..) Part...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 9, 2013 5:56 am
Hi Levi, You're struggling with the following concepts: - Energy - Average Power - Peak (or instantaneous) Power In a Tesla Coil, energy is slowly accumulated...
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Ron Stephens
mymikidog
May 9, 2013 7:47 am
I apologize for the posting problems. This group was set to moderate new users. I'm trying unmoderated to see if we can keep the interference to a minimum, yet...
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Saber
leviterande
May 9, 2013 10:54 pm
Thank you a lot for the reply Bert, Although I am aware of energy, peak power and instantaneous power, as being different properties of the same small...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 10, 2013 1:24 am
Hi Levi, ... OK! ... No. Consider a lossless LC circuit. If you inject 10 joules of energy into the circuit, it will continue to oscillate indefinitely. The...
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Saber
leviterande
May 11, 2013 11:51 pm
I have been to that website but Il see if I can get a clearer picture from that website now. Thank you Bert...
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Chris Swinson
exxos_uk
May 12, 2013 9:48 pm
I think it may help to state also in charge terms and capacitance values in this way... for example, if you have a tank cap of 10nF and hold 0.5J of energy...
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Ed Johnson
eanmoi
May 12, 2013 11:50 pm
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Michael Riversong Edu...
rivedu
May 16, 2013 1:58 am
When considering and combin ing the ideas of Tom Beardon and Larry Spring, we can conclude that your statement is correct -- there are no Herzian transverse...
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McGalliard, Frederick B
freddyboy_9
May 16, 2013 2:32 pm
Please note that no physics argument can be convincing if “the reason is mathematical”. Math, or more specifically “a math” is the tool that is used to...
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Michael Riversong Edu...
rivedu
May 19, 2013 3:45 am
First, registering enthusiastic agreement with your first paragraph. Any mathematical system is fundamentally arbitrary, and the better math teachers say so...
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Saber
leviterande
May 19, 2013 4:50 pm
I have a bigger grasp at how oscillations occur in TCs . The transport of energy between primary and secondary occur in pulses of around 200hz(depending on...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 20, 2013 4:42 am
Hi Karl, ... Yes. ... Yes... at least during the times that the Tesla Coil rings up to peak voltage during each bang. From a practical standpoint, preventing...
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Saber
leviterande
May 20, 2013 7:17 am
Oh just a note: Its better to say that "I want a HV capacitor to oscillate at high frequency" rather than "I want to AC feed it". ..what matters is that I...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
May 20, 2013 4:26 pm
Hi Karl, ... Exactly. The topload serves as one terminal of a HV capacitor. The other "terminal"; is the combination of the Earth and all other nearby ...
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McGalliard, Frederick B
freddyboy_9
May 20, 2013 5:45 pm
What if torroid is coated with a high breakdown material? (not at all sure what would actually work at 400KV) From: usa-tesla@yahoogroups.com...
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Bert Hickman
bert_hickman
12:51 am
Hi Fred, Coat it with a layer of unobtanium? Seriously, holding off 400 kVDC would be challenging enough, but 400 kV at RF frequencies is almost impossible to...
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Saber
leviterande
2:18 am
Frederick, yes indeed, some high dielectric insulation must be used but perhaps lower voltages will also be used at least in the beginning. HV makes it a...
