Re: Wireless Self-Resonance Experiments
Al,
ok another thread sometime.
Just an Idea:
There is one very good way to couple energy into or out of a Tank circuit. It is called "Inductive link coupling" The beauty of it is that you can create a link between two circuits, or say just a plate load and one main Tank resonant circuit with a correctly set up link.
This can be done with a tap on the cold part of the main tank circuit (or a coupling coil there) and a similar inductance coil in the plate load, linked together, twisted wires are usually ok, over some distance which can be helpful too, getting your driver valves physically away from the main coil area where all the high voltage action will be.
The trick though, is to tune the link, between the two identical coils with a series variable capacitor between them, to neutralize the reactance of these coupling coils at the operating frequency.
This way maximum current flows in the link circuit (as it does inside a resonant circuit at resonance) and allows energy transfer from the anode of your output stage into your main Tank/Tesla coil and the energy into that coil is maximized. It could be worth looking into this for your application.
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