User:Tropylium/Spark-coupled oscillator

A spark-coupled oscillator is an oscillator conctructed from two smaller sparker oscillators, so that their sparks interact to create a slightly longer-lived spark. Spark-coupling two oscillators of different periods is a simple way of constructing oscillators of a composite period. Indeed for period 45 no other kinds of oscillators are known, and for several (bolded in the list below), the smallest known oscillators are spark-couples.

Spark-coupled spaceships are also possible in theory.

List of spark-coupled oscillators

• p20: Mold on fumarole
• p21: Caterer on 44P7.2
• p24: Caterer on figure eight
• p28: Mold on 41P7.2
• p33: 258P3 on Achim's p11
• p39: Caterer on 34P13
• p42: Unix on 41P7.2
• p44: Mold on 36P22
• p45: Pentadecathlon on thumb 1, pentadecathlon on snacker
• p55: Fumarole on Achim's p11
• p66: Caterer on 36P22
• p105: Pentadecathlon on 37P7.1
• p110: Pseudo-barberpole on 36P22
• p120: Figure eight on pentadecathlon

See also

• Toad hassler, a general sparker period-doubling mechanism
• 69P48, an oscillator with a different non-trivial combination of two small oscillator mechanisms