Electromagnetic radiation from a Tesla transformer

Craven, Richard M.; Smith, Ivor R.; Novac, Bucur

Electromagnetic radiation from a Tesla transformer

journal contribution

posted on 2018-01-12, 11:09 authored by Richard M. Craven, Ivor R. Smith, Bucur Novac

In addition to the resistive and dielectric losses that inevitably occur near the secondary winding of a Tesla transformer, electromagnetic radiation into the far field also contributes to the overall power losses and thereby reduces both the effective quality factor (Q) and the power transfer efficiency of this winding. A short study of these effects for a laboratory scale transformer has shown that, in addition to its Q-factor being considerably reduced, the secondary winding is an extremely inefficient radiator of electromagnetic energy.

History

School

Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Published in

Applied Physics Research

Volume

9

Issue

2

Pages

53 - 53

Citation

CRAVEN, R.M., SMITH, I.R. and NOVAC, B.M., 2017. Electromagnetic radiation from a Tesla transformer. Applied Physics Research, 9 (2), pp. 53-56.

Publisher

Canadian Center of Science and Education © The Authors

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

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

2017-03-06

Publication date

2017-03-17

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/