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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