Re: What's truly better?

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi C.L.,

Both the capacitor and spark gap are both in series with the primary??  The 
order or placement does not mater.

The spark gap should be parallel with the transformer output.

Cheers,

         Terry

At 04:10 PM 3/15/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>I've been reviewing a lot of
>schematics, and archived messages
>the last few days, and so far there seems
>to be a 50/50 split on what the best
>configuration for a spark-gap style TC
>is... capacitor in series with primary,
>or spark gap in series with primary? Both
>seem to be equally as popular.  However,
>being in a "wanna do it up right" mode, it
>would truly behoove me (plus any newbies
>we have lurking) to come up with a final
>"this is it for now and all time" decision
>as to which is better....so which is it?
>
>---
>C.L. Mayeux
>Owner, MSB Data Systems
>http://www.msbdatasystems.tk