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Maybe I should be looking at a circuit like the one pictured above and considering how it works in relation to the diagram below or the circuit under that circuit:
Just wondering if you can charge a cap, then discharge that cap into an inductor and then take the fly-back from the inductor to drive a ignition coil?
I found a very good circuit analysis video on the Tesla hairpin circuit.
Notice what Fred says about the spark gap: It's only a voltage limiter and contributes nothing to the overall functioning of the circuit.
Not sure I'm in 100% agreement with that. The spark gap may serve multiple purposes, the other of which is to short the secondary, so no energy can get back via that path from the capacitors. Everything gets forced out the load side.
It may also start the XC conversion/separation Alex talks about. BTW, that was a good video. Those thin wires made a believer out of me. Clearly something different going on there.
I was thinking also the spark gaps should be magnetically quenched.
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I was wondering if quenching the spark gap was a means of tuning to a type of resonance perhaps quarter wave of the big step up coil by shortening the duration of the pulse until it has the on time of a single pulse of a much higher frequency as well as making an opportunity for cold to enter.
BTW Thanks for the last lot of downloading info.
In my last post I made a mistake after seeing the error of my ways Ive gone back and fixed that up.
In discussing magnetically quenched spark gaps it is difficult to get away from the advancements made by vacuum tubes but I will attempt to address simply the product and you will need to imagine in your own minds what the effects in the aether might be.
Introducing a magnetic field between a gap perpendicular to the direction of the lines of force that the high voltage is about to travel creates rapid realignment. It is not that the electricity is blocked and has no place to go but the charged dielectric is abruptly shifted geometrically so that the next arc reacts on less ionized gas. While this contributes to higher performance to the tank circuit it does have a unique effect.
In discussing magnetically quenched spark gaps it is difficult to get away from the advancements made by vacuum tubes but I will attempt to address simply the product and you will need to imagine in your own minds what the effects in the aether might be.
Introducing a magnetic field between a gap perpendicular to the direction of the lines of force that the high voltage is about to travel creates rapid realignment. It is not that the electricity is blocked and has no place to go but the charged dielectric is abruptly shifted geometrically so that the next arc reacts on less ionized gas. While this contributes to higher performance to the tank circuit it does have a unique effect.
Tesla spoke about how magnetic fields interrupt the current at a high frequency. I doubt he was wrong about that. Perhaps the less ionized arc is more prone to interruption, and that is what causes the high frequency phenomenon. As for the advancements in vacuum tube technology, is there a means to quench the gap as rapidly as you want with the use of vacuum tubes? That would be very usefull in building a hairpin circuit.
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