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Improvements to secondary windings of Tesla transformers
journal contribution
posted on 2018-01-12, 11:21 authored by Richard M. Craven, Ivor R. Smith, Bucur NovacBucur NovacImpulse excitation of the tuned primary circuit of a Tesla transformer generates a voltage and current response in the similarly tuned secondary circuit that contains both a fundamental component and a series of multiple higher-order modes. This paper investigates the most significant of these modes, in order to demonstrate a design approach that, when applied to the secondary winding, can bring about a reduction in the higher-order modes without significantly affecting the fundamental term. The resulting process leads to an improved spectral purity of the transformer output, making it better suited than existing conventional designs for application in electronic warfare and other high-power systems.
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School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
Applied Physics ResearchVolume
9Issue
1Pages
93 - 93Citation
CRAVEN, R.M., SMITH, I.R. and NOVAC, B.M., 2017. Improvements to secondary windings of Tesla transformers. Applied Physics Research, 9 (1), pp. 93-98.Publisher
Canadian Center of Science and Education © The AuthorsVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-01-12Publication date
2017-01-23Notes
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education under the Creative Commons International 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ISSN
1916-9639eISSN
1916-9647Publisher version
Language
- en