Re: staccato CW RF envelope effects

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/19/01 8:45:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> 
>  John Freau,
>             interesting data, so is running a VTTC continuously like the 
>  union of the different types of sparks you are observing at different 
>  portions of the AC power cycle.
>  -Pete Lawrence.

Pete,

I should have mentioned it, but the normal operation with full
envelope is very much like running the center portion only.  I think
the ending part is sort of "absorbed" into the existing spark, so it
doesn't shorten it.  (once spark is long.... it can't be shortened by
waveform variations.)   But center portion uses a little less power than
the full waveform.  There may be some more branching with teh full
waveform, hard to tell because of all the franticness of the sparks.

Continuous running is still pulsed of course because it runs only
on the positive AC half cycles (self-rectification).

John