Sadly no. You need a good impedance match from transmitter to antenna. A Tesla coil has a very high output Z.
-John ============ > Bill, > > Now, if you could have connected a key to that, and a long wire antenna, > you would have been in business! One gigantic spark gap transmitter. > > Best, > > Will > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 6/27/2011 at 5:36 PM 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. >>_______________________________________________ >>time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] >>To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >>and follow the instructions there. >> >>__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 5851 (20110206) __________ >> >>The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >>http://www.eset.com > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
