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Re: Beating Solved



Tesla List wrote:
> 
> >From bturner-at-apc-dot-netFri Sep 27 22:09:48 1996
> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 03:47:34 -0700
> From: open_minded <bturner-at-apc-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Beating Solved
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> > <<SNIP>>
> 
> >Ultra big sniperoo


> Turns out that I screwed up my math a bit, and discovered (to my horror)
> that my current gap has a dwell time of 600uS! Whooooeeeeeee. 1800-RPM
> with 3/8" electrodes on a 6" diameter. Yuck. I plan to spend this
> weekend re-fitting the gap with 1/8" solid-tungsten rods, and putting
> a 3600-RPM motor on it. This will get me down to about 130uS or so.
> Makes me wonder how Richard H. can get the dwell down near 10uS...gotta
> be using counter-rotating disks or something.)
> 
> - Brent

I use the standard TCBOR designed Series quench Rotary design.  Counter 
rotating disks will do it too, but are more complex.

Richard Hull, TCBOR