Re: Trigger First Light

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Original poster: "brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ka1bbg1-at-mcttelecom-dot-com>

Your welcome. good luck on the triggered gap. cul brian
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:56 PM
Subject: Trigger First Light


> Original poster: "Alex Madsen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<alexmadsen-at-yahoo-dot-com>
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> For a picture of what I am talking about go to
> http://www.geocities-dot-com/alexmadsen/transformers.htm
>
>     I Just constructed a trigger gap and rewired my coil with heavier gage
> wire (I also took out a few feet of unneeded wire). The trigger consists
of
> a PVC ring in which I drilled 3 wholes. I then pressed in nuts that were
> slightly bigger. The electrodes are 1/8 in tungsten carbide. I drilled
> wholes in the center 1/2 brass bolts and slip the electrodes in to them.
> Copper wire was then wrapped around them and bolted to a hat sink attached
> to the bolt. The wire was added hopefully aid with cooling and reduce
> resistance in the electrodes. I am a little worried that I may have
created
> an rf choke but the wire is un insulated. However initial tests indicate
> that it work a lot better then my previous SG. I am using a 600 watt
dimmer,
> 4uf motor run capacitor and a Ford ignition coil. I also added 2 125 Vac
> MOVs one over the coil and one across the power leads. I would use more
but
> that was all Radio Shack had.
>
>
> Thank You to Brian for all the parts he helped me with.
> The performance with this gap is significantly better than my old one. I
> could just barley get a breakouts before and now I have steady streamers.
I
> was going to take a pic but I saw a strange light coming from under my NST
> filter. Thank god only the connection to my NST had come off. The
> performance should only get better from here.
> Alex Madsen
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