Hi Will:
I got interested in RF coils and spent a couple of years winding coils,
and measuring them on a Boonton Q meter. That led to Tesla and I got a
number of his publications. 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. Tesla did not understand Q and thought
it was something magic.
Measuring impedance is very different than measuring things with
connectors, both in terms of backing out the connection parasitics and
in terms of using a measurement method that minimizes errors (for
example network analyzers only work when the impedance is within a
couple orders of magnitude of 50 Ohms).
http://www.prc68.com/I/Z.shtml
Have Fun,
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
Will Matney wrote:
...
I encourage any on here to add to it, especially in the design of RF and
audio impedance transformers. I wanted to do more, but never found the time
to set down and do it, plus I never really designed that many of them, only
power transformers. What I wrote was the basics, but didn't get into any
formulae, etc, which I would have liked to have seen included. Any help
would be appreciated, not just by me, but our entire electrical and
electronics community as a whole, especially any students who read it. I
even found a link on Google, from a Russian university, who had their
students read it at one time.
Thanks,
Will
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