Re: TSG with DC?

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Original poster: "S & J Young by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <youngs-at-konnections-dot-net>

Mike,

Yes, timing can be whatever you want.  But how do you get the gap to
extinguish?  DC obviously doesn't have a zero crossing to stop gap
conduction, so you have to quench it some other way.  You can have a power
supply that "folds back" to zero when the gap fires - not an easy thing to
design.  I think Marco's 10 KV output switching power supply may behave that
way.  Or perhaps a strong blast of air will "blow out" the gap plasma.  I
have yet to try a TSG with my DC powered TC.  If others have, please share
your results.

--Steve


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Subject: Re: TSG with DC?


> Original poster: "Michael H Nolley by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <nolleym-at-willamette.edu>
>
>
>     If the TSG were to be used on a DC coil, the timing issue would be
> non-existent, am I
> correct?  If so, how configurable could you make the TSG bps? It would be
> cool if you could
> adjust the breaks between 1 and several hundred bps.
>
>             --Mike
>
>
>