Re: first coil progress...

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 10/2/06 2:33:15 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

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Concerning my belief that running a complete primary circuit with no
secondary would increase the RMS current through the cap - Terry's
simulation and response takes me by surprise!  I had always heard that
this was not a safe thing to do, and reasoned that by removing the
secondary and eliminating any quenching, the peak current remains the
same, but you just get more pri-sec trades in the same bang-interval, so
wouldn't this raise the RMS current?  Or are the gap losses so huge that
what isn't transferred to the secondary is mostly burned up in the gap?

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Hi Gary,

    I'm not sure I follow how you get more pri-sec trades with the 
secondary removed. Did you mean more damped oscillations in the 
primary per bang?

Matt D.