Re: magnetic quinching

[FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

In a message dated 7/27/00 4:21:19 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com 
>  
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I was wondering if anyone out there knew anything about magnetic
>  quinching of a spark gap. I have read some brief references to this
>  in some old (turn of the century) literature on Tesla coils. It seems
>  like someone mentioned this just a few days ago on the list and it
>  aroused my curiousity. It does seem like this is a relatively unex-
>  plored territory in the modern Tesla community and maybe, with the
>  NIB rare earth magnets that are available today, it would be worth
>  looking into.
>  
>  Pondering,
>  David R.

David,

THere was a long thread on this list about a year or two ago about
magnetic quenching, but there was no clear conclusion that I can
remember.  In any case the issue seemed to be well covered at
the time.  

Cheers,
John Freau