Re: MOT charging anomaly partly resolved (fwd)

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Original poster: Tesla List Moderator <mod1-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>



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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:24:17 EST
From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: MOT charging anomaly partly resolved (fwd)

In a message dated 12/5/00 11:06:34 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

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 Unfortunately, something started to smell at this point: the center
 electrode (which is no doubt going to be the achilles heel of this coil)
 had developed a gap, and was rapidly burning away. It`s copper for the
 upper part, and a change to all tungsten is now indicated.
 
 Running the coil inside the small basement workshop at more or less full
 output would normally not have been possible, if I had not completely
 shorted the toroid to ground.
 
 Cheers, Finn Hammer
 
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Finn,

Is this a synchronous gap?  What is the bps?

Ed Sonderman