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<[email protected]> 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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