Re: Async vs. Sync

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 6/19/01 10:47:34 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Hi there
>  
>  Just about to start building an RSG to replace an old cpper pipe gap... 
what
>  are the thoughts of people on using SRSG or ARSG type gaps... Surely SRSG
>  would be better because it fires on the caps' peak charging point... why 
use
>  a gap with a BPS different to 100? Why use anything except 100? Im really
>  confused...
>  
>  Jason

Jason,

There are many reasons why one gap type is better than the other,
for a certain case, depends on your cap size, etc.  If the cap is
small, you may need a higher bps to get long sparks, because
with a small cap size, the bang size will be small.  In that case
you will need to grow the spark via bps.   Async gives more
leeway for an imperfectly designed coil.

John Freau