Re: Best cap size for a sync gap

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Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> 

"Hi Malcolm,

Its speculation!!  Some NSTs have air gaps and others have the shunts
crammed in pretty tight metal to metal.  Indeed, ones with air gaps
should
not saturate and would theoretically be poor candidates for an SLTR
coil.  But the whole saturating thing is just an idea without proof.  If
one were good, one could find an NST and work out all the areas, core
types, magnetization curves, ... to see if the idea really has a basis
in
fact.  Pretty simple stuff for those that know the art of transformer
design.

Cheers,

          Terry"

	The guys who design NST's (if anyone still does - the design has been
pretty standard for a long time) could answer your questions in a
minute.  Have you ever seen a transformer in which the shunts have no
gap??????

Ed