[time-nuts] Transformer design.

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Mon Jun 27 22:14:06 UTC 2011


"Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Sadly, much of the population have zero understanding of technology or
science. Hence, everything is magic.

-John

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> Hi Bill:
>
> Agreed.  But there are those that consider them magic.
>
> Have Fun,
>
> Brooke Clarke
> http://www.PRC68.com
>
>
> William H. Fite wrote:
>> Without meaning to sound sassy, Brooke, let me assure you that there is
>> nothing "just" about it.  While in high school I built quite a large
>> Tesla
>> coil with a 16kv, 60ma neon transformer, a pressurized air-quenched
>> spark
>> gap, a huge variac, and a bank of 50 .15mfd (I think they were
>> .15mfd--that
>> was a long time ago--capacitors.  The finished product, in addition to
>> being
>> dangerous as hell to the careless operator could be heard more than a
>> block
>> away and generated enough hash to bring TV and radio reception to a halt
>> in
>> the whole neighborhood.
>>
>> And that isn't even a big one...
>>
>> So, no, it isn't magic and yes, it is an RF transformer with the primary
>> and
>> secondary in resonance but, believe me, it is not "just" a transformer.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Brooke Clarke<brooke at pacific.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It turns out that a Tesla coil is not magical, it's just an RF
>>> transformer
>>> where the primary and secondary are resonated.  I took him some time to
>>> find
>>> a mechanical structure (pipe mast insulated by wine bottles with a
>>> capacitive top hat).  The high school "Tesla Coils" really are just RF
>>> transformers because they omit the resonance on the secondary.
>>>
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