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Re: srsg idea to prevent losses



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

In a message dated 3/20/02 2:48:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Colin,

The spark will fire before the brush contacts, so it will give no
benefit there.  Also, when the brush does contact, this may
cause refiring of the gap, and will cause inefficiency, etc.

Cheers,
John


>
> im going to run my gap without spark gap but instead have the rotor
> electrodes
> touch a spring loaded contact so it brushes by it when running
> i have achieved the actual building of this unit but just wondered whether it
> needs to spark to work
>
> i was hoping this would reduce losses in the spark
> i am a newbie to all this only 4 months and have two coils my best putting
> out
> 4'