Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This experiment is based on a video that somebody brought on to me:
youtube.com/watch?v=EHRkCQ19GhU
In the video I saw the explication, like Rick talks about on "multi body" & "free oscillations"
I wanted to see if I could experiment on low voltage to study the behavior and look at that particular point where we have a rise in the free oscillations amplitude.
This experiment is different from the one in the video in the fact that I should use a secondary inside "body 2", keep in mind I'm building up things on this.
However I wanted to share this interesting result with you so that when I have better understanding you can also see from where I started on this.
At the moment I look at it this way:
We see that without sparking the gap we have a steady sine wave with max amplitude delta of 20.4V (59.3Khz, scope probe close to but not connected).
When we go higher in frequency (59.5Khz) we see the influence ones the spark gap starts sparking.
We have periods where we have less maximum voltage and we can see the eneregy build up after each extra pulse up until a point where we have a complete discharge.
The part where we have less voltage amplitude is what I think will be the part where we have less impedance on our second body.
Each extra pulse we see the amplitude grow, due to the belonging impedance change due to that energy delivered by the pulse (change in capacitor impedance). Then the free oscillations take over with approx same amplitude until the next pulse comes. And again energy is added to the previous free oscillations (again due to change in capacitor impedance caused by higher voltage).
At some point the spark gap fires and all is discharged, leaving us with a very bad impedance for our resonant voltage source .
Then the cycle of step charging the series LC circuit can start again.
What I believe is important in this experiment is that we are able to add energy to previous free oscillation and not only move back & forth what was there before, we can place a + sign to our result :)
This is in the end what I think we want to do on the secondary in "body 2": Building up from previous free oscillations.
I look at the situation of body 1 as the power source in the Corum video, so I'm only looking at possible supply to body 2, not the use in body 2 by means of secondary in there.
This experiment is based on a video that somebody brought on to me:
youtube.com/watch?v=EHRkCQ19GhU
In the video I saw the explication, like Rick talks about on "multi body" & "free oscillations"
I wanted to see if I could experiment on low voltage to study the behavior and look at that particular point where we have a rise in the free oscillations amplitude.
This experiment is different from the one in the video in the fact that I should use a secondary inside "body 2", keep in mind I'm building up things on this.
However I wanted to share this interesting result with you so that when I have better understanding you can also see from where I started on this.
At the moment I look at it this way:
We see that without sparking the gap we have a steady sine wave with max amplitude delta of 20.4V (59.3Khz, scope probe close to but not connected).
When we go higher in frequency (59.5Khz) we see the influence ones the spark gap starts sparking.
We have periods where we have less maximum voltage and we can see the eneregy build up after each extra pulse up until a point where we have a complete discharge.
The part where we have less voltage amplitude is what I think will be the part where we have less impedance on our second body.
Each extra pulse we see the amplitude grow, due to the belonging impedance change due to that energy delivered by the pulse (change in capacitor impedance). Then the free oscillations take over with approx same amplitude until the next pulse comes. And again energy is added to the previous free oscillations (again due to change in capacitor impedance caused by higher voltage).
At some point the spark gap fires and all is discharged, leaving us with a very bad impedance for our resonant voltage source .
Then the cycle of step charging the series LC circuit can start again.
What I believe is important in this experiment is that we are able to add energy to previous free oscillation and not only move back & forth what was there before, we can place a + sign to our result :)
This is in the end what I think we want to do on the secondary in "body 2": Building up from previous free oscillations.
I look at the situation of body 1 as the power source in the Corum video, so I'm only looking at possible supply to body 2, not the use in body 2 by means of secondary in there.
