Re: [TCML] 1/4 wavelength theory ??

[G Hunter <dogbrain_39560@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- On Wed, 2/10/10, Dex Dexter <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Dex Dexter <dexterlabs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] 1/4 wavelength theory ??
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 3:05 PM
> Well then,have you ever witnessed
> flashovers
> between secondary and primary (driver) in
> magnifier configurations at least?
> I can tell you that I tried intentionaly
> to induce racing sparks on my small secondary
> by raising coupling and all I could get was
> flashover between primary and secondary.
> Racing sparks?Hey people,what are you 
> talking about?Any youtube vid where I
> could see the phenomenon?
> And it isn't just me.For example,
> Steve Conner has built perhaps more then 
> a dozen of various tesla coils,and
> never had racing sparks problems 
> ( flashovers he had of course).
> 
> Dex

Hi Dex,

I've never operated a magnifier, but I've observed racing sparks several times on my conventional spark gap coils.  Here's one example:

http://myweb.cableone.net/grcarhunter/SPSPARX.html

Scroll down to the bottom picture.

Cheers,

Greg


      

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