new cap, sucker gap :))

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Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Hi all,

I was tho guy who had all of that trouble awhile ago with the GE42l caps.  I 
now have some CD caps(1600v .22uf).  Im using 1 string of 15 with a 12/60 
PSU.  These caps are tough!  I also gave the Gary Lau sucker gap another 
shot.  I had actually built it for my large 2000w coil, but i was testing it 
on this coil.  This gap is grrrreat! Im gettin 36" sparks from my small 
coil, and the safety never fires!  With my RQ gap i could only get about 32" 
and the safety would fire.  But the sucker performs flawlessly.  I did try 
it as a blower gap, but i had some problems with a power arc forming and 
loosing lots of performance.  The sucker now uses a dimmer to control it, i 
was amazed that it worked!  I have it set to about 70% for best arcs.

I also have a little interesting topic to bring up.  While using a breakout 
point pointed at a un-grounded sphere, a good charge will be left on the 
sphere after i turn off the coil!  I was thinking some kind of rectification 
was going on?  The sphere is on a pair of buckets so its well away from 
ground.  So what is going on here?  This seems to support the idea of DC in 
the output of the coil.  I dont know too much about all of this so thats why 
im interested.  Ive also had a metal lawn chair give me a really bad zap 
after running my large coil, letting it arc to it.  I think the thick paint 
gave it more capacitance? So whats the deal? is this anything new or just 
old news?

Steve Ward.



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