From: Paul
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 23:12:15 +0100
Subject: Re: [TSSP] Topload breakout potentials
John wrote: > I first tuned at 16.5 turns (76uH), this barely permitted the sparks > to break out at full power. Sometimes break out was delayed for > 10 seconds or so. One time the breakout stopped, while the > coil was already breaking out. So this seems to be right at the > edge of breakout. That sounds like just what we need - a system that is right on the threshold of breakout. After an evening tramping around the hills I'm too tired to setup the model for this tonight - I'm sure to get it wrong so I'll run that tomorrow. It should be quite interesting to see how close the toroid surface field is to 26kV. Of course, we're ignoring efficiency here with this model, so the prediction could come out a little way above that value and still be valid. > Next, I tuned at 15.5 turns. The sparks could not break out. > Then I tuned at 17.5 turns. The sparks could not break out, Looks like the primary is in tune then. Even better as a model system. -- Paul Nicholson, --
Maintainer Paul Nicholson, paul@abelian.demon.co.uk.