Re: Wire - O/U & Negative Resistance
Bill McMurtry ( weber@powerup.com.au )
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 17:15:08 +1000
At 20:03 9/02/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi John et al!
>
>You wrote;
>> That reminds me, Archie H.Blue has a NZ patent for a tesla coil wound
>> with steel wire.
>
>Hmmm....I'm puzzled by this. Ok, a Tesla coil has a primary with a few
>turns, a secondary with many, many turns, a step-up AIRCORE transformer.
>
>As I understand it, steel/iron laminations placed in the presence of
>windings will increase the current flowing in the coil windings. It also
>results in heating from hysteresis. But that is for laminations, not
>coils.
>
>So, if you put an additional winding around a Tesla coil, wouldn't that
>just be another coil, causing the power (voltage X current), in the form
>of inductive spikes coming from the primary coil (high current, low
>voltage) to be split into two secondaries (high voltage, low current).
>
>Half of this power feeds the copper windings of the Tesla coil proper,
>the other the additional steel winding.
>
>So, is the patent saying he gets additional energy from this steel wire
>coil? As if there was something about steel as opposed to copper that
>would make it have unusual properties?
>
>Do you have any excerpts or claims from the patent that could shed any
>light on this? Thanks!
>
>
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Hi Jerry,
could be wrong on this, but, it sounds like what is referred to as steel
wire being used in a Tesla coil is in fact the windings of the Tesla coil
itself are steel. Steel windings instead of Copper? Made a lot of Tesla
coils in my time but never tried this. What effect would steel windings
have???
Bill.