From: boris petkovic
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Secondary voltage stress factor
Hi Paul, Nice job done as concerns modeling and conclusions on John's coil. Please,receive thanks from all of us, for spending your time and energy in developing simulation programs.You're carying the heaviest burden by far in TSSP. I wrote: > > real coils discharge in that case for a mere > > fraction of resonant TC semicycle (microsecond or > so > > and 95% of energy "gone with a wind"). Paul wrote: > Well certainly the topload energy is lost quickly, > but the coil > energy will take several cycles to dissipate. The > coil *charge* will > need a quarter-cycle to drain from the coil, but in > doing so most of > its energy will be transferred to the coil's B > field, and the coil > will continue to oscillate like this (with both ends > grounded, ie in > the half wave mode) for a few cycles until all the > coil energy is > dissipated in the arc of the topload discharge. --- When a typical TC resonator disspiate energy tru shot near peak of its' voltage wave ,the mayority of energy is lost in HF burst in MHz range and only about 5% or so of inital energy is left to oscillate aproximatelly like you describe.Once,I had been ready to think just like you but changed my mind after seeing real scope discharges of several units. Furtherly ,problem being here that these violent transients occure at 5 ,10 ,20 Mhz or more and EM theory not yet imbeded in a software starts to play important role.Coil physical size,enviroment of discharging ciruit and other parameters greatly determine overall picture too. ---- So I > think the > arc discharge will remain for a few cycles. --- It will ,if a power arc is short in comparation with it's max. point to point lenght capability.Most definitely,if you connect top electrode to the grounding via wire ,that will detune (heavily) TC system and for a successful transfer of energy (new ~half wave resonance) retuning is a must.But,this can not be the situation you're looking for? regards, Boris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Mother's Day is May 12th! http://shopping.yahoo.com
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