Re: Capacitor Help (spark gap)

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Original poster: "MalcolmTesla" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx
>
> In a message dated 12/20/05 2:16:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Actually after playing with it a while it seemed the regular spark gap was
> making about the same size sparks but the safety gap kept going off every
> other second or so.  I'll try to get things dialed in today.  I did make a
> new spark gap last night.  It's a piece of 4" PVC with about 9 or 10
pieces
> of copper tube super glued around in there.  I spaced them with pennys.
> Each tube is 1 1/2" long.  I'll try that out today too.
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm - KC
>
>
>
> Hi Malcolm,
>
>      Most of the multigaps I've seen used spacing of a credit card.
> You will want the SUM of all your gaps to be less than 1/2".
>
> Matt D.

Matt,

Thank you for the suggestion.  The sum of my gaps was probably not more than
1/2" but I didn't measure it exactly.  I like the idea of going to even
smaller gaps and spacing them over even more surface area.  I'm going to do
that.

Thanks
Malcolm - KC