Exactly, however, it will also reduce the inductance overall.
>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?
Ah,,, yes... this kind of makes sense... Bearden & all...
What Bearden talks about is a pulsed spike where the spike
pulse width is shorter than the propagation time constant
times length of the line. Using steel wire, the hysterisis may
just pay an important part in this pulse scheme. It may just keep
a magnetic field around the wire after the pulse is withdrawn
keeping a potential constant and flowing... Once the source is
withdrawn a capacitor is charged from this potential, sort of
like magnets - free B-Fields. I was thinking of how I could get
a circular B-Field and this just maybe the key. Induce a magnetic
field on a wire which is magnetic!!! Perfect! Someone try this
out!
v/r Ken Carrigan