I am playing around with a simple 1:1 transformer that I made. It consists of 1 turn on the primary and 1 turn on the secondary.
I am charging up a 100 nF capacitor on the primary and letting it discharge through a resistive load on the 2ndary. It all seems normal with a little bit of loss in voltage but seemingly normal.
The strange thing that happens though is when I go to to discharge the capacitor through the transformer with an inductance on the 2ndary instead of the resistance. Quite a bit of voltage is loss, about half but it appears to ring out correctly. Why does this operate correctly under the resistive load (up to the V-s rating of the core) but not under the oscillating/inductive condtion?
The values I am using are 100 nF on the primary, 200 Ohm resistance, and 500 nH inductance.
I feel like the answer lies in basic knowledge of transformers which I don't know much about just yet.