Can you report any more data about TC
No problem, I use copper tub or/and twisted copper cable as a primary and an insulated
or bare copper wire as the secondary wound on a ferrite core tube of rings
or a paper tube.
But it will be more correct to take this from original text:
“by the proper design of a comparatively small and compact transformer. In carrying on tests
with a secondary in the form of a flat spiral, as illustrated in my patents, the absence of streamers surprised me,
and it was not long before I discovered that this was due to the position of the turns and their mutual action.
Profiting from this observation I resorted to the use of a high tension conductor with turns of considerable diameter
sufficiently separated to keep down the distributed capacity, while at the same time preventing
undue accumulation of the charge at any point.â€
And then I use water/oil homemade leyden jar and lately Doorknob capacitors but
I must admit that I am back to the leyden jar since I can make small adjust in capacity to.
For those further interested I will copy this to, from the original writings:
"I have been asked by the ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER to be quite explicit on this subject so
that my young friends among the readers of the magazine will clearly understand the construction
and operation of my "Magnifying Transmitter" and the purposes for which it is intended. Well,
then, in the first place, it is a resonant transformer with a secondary in which the parts, charged to
a high potential, are of considerable area and arranged in space along ideal enveloping surfaces
of very large radii of curvature, and at proper distances from one another thereby insuring a small
electric surface density everywhere so that no leak can occur even if the conductor is bare. It is
suitable for any frequency, from a few to many thousands of cycles per second, and can be used
in the production of currents of tremendous volume and moderate pressure, or of smaller
amperage and immense electromotive force. The maximum electric tension is merely dependent
on the curvature of the surfaces on which the charged elements are situated and the area of the
latter."
So when this is understood, it become clearly obvious, that principally any combination is possible.
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