Re: sparkless rotary spark gap (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:49:49 +0100
From: Chris Swinson <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: sparkless rotary spark gap (fwd)

Ameen,

How do you plan to hold off 10KV from your electrodes until they touch ?

Chris



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Subject: sparkless rotary spark gap (fwd)


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> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:58:02 +0000
> From: ameen_ghavam@xxxxxxxxxxx
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: sparkless rotary spark gap
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>            Alright, I'm no exptert, but I can't seem to see why it's
> absolutely necessary to have a rotary gap spark as suppose to just
> touching electrodes. If your electrodes touched, there would be no worries
> about quenching or overheating, but the capacitor still discharges. This
> does mean, however, that the circuit resonates a lot longer and gives the
> capacitor less charging time. But it could be a fair tradeoff considering
> that more energy overall is transfered into the secondary. The efficiency
> may not improve, but no quenching or overheating worries, just physical
> erosion to the electrode.
>                       Does anyone see a reason why that wouldn't be a
> good idea?
>                                          Ameen Ghavam
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