Re: Biggg Coil running again

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Original poster: "Kevin R Eldredge by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <kreld-at-juno-dot-com>



On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 11:16:05 -0600 "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
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>Kevin,
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>Congratulations on getting the hanger built, and all.   This is very
>interesting about the rotary follow-around stopping when you 
>eliminated
>the series static gaps.  This is directly opposite to the common
>belief that series gaps are needed to help quench the gap and
>prevent follow-around.  It would seem, at least in some cases,
>that the need or desireablity of the series gaps is yet another 
>coiling myth.  It is significant that the series gaps not only didn't
>help your coil, but made it worse.  I myself do not use series
>gaps with my rotary, but I had thought they may be needed for
>some higher powered coils.  Your results seem to suggest
>otherwise.  The 120 bps breakrate may be helping things too
>by letting the gap fire near the input zero-crossing.
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>Thanks for the report,
>John Freau
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>John

  This is what I thought would happen also, I might try different static
gap configurations tonight to be sure there is not a "sweet spot" in the
gaps for this Coil.

Kevin E.
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