Re: PWM Controller question

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Original poster: "Eastern Voltage Research Corporation" <dhmccauley-at-easternvoltageresearch-dot-com> 

To get bass, you need to move air.
I found that by using a loop of wire instead of a single point discharge,
you can really increase low-end frequency response (esp. with stereo coils)
However, you also increase the high frequency hiss noise of the arc when
using the loop set-up as well.

Dan


 > Sue, you are indeed correct that bigger sparks will give a better
 > response to lower audio fr, I have seen this with my
 > AudioMmodulatedVTTC. But to get really long sparks you will need some
 > MAJOR power! I was able to get 10" sparks when first starting out with
 > audio modulation, basically staccato to the base with some major
 > clipping! But really we don't need really long sparks to get some really
 > clean LOUD audio, 4-5" plasma discharge will deafen you. If one could
 > find a way to get a larger more powerful discharge from Dan's
 > PlasmaSonic and get a way to easily tune to best mode for clean audio,
 > then we will have something really cool (not that it isn't already
 > cool)!
 >
 > Regards,
 >
 > David Trimmell