Re: Resistors VS inductors for Marx (fwd)

[Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 23:30:14 +0100
From: Mike Harrison <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Resistors VS inductors for Marx (fwd)

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:06:17 -0600 (MDT), you wrote:

>Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 06:37:52 -0700
>From: Jonathan Peakall <jpeakall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Resistors VS inductors for Marx
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>Hi All,
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>Why do people always use resistors in Marx generators? I whipped up some
>inductors once and they worked fine. I didn't try the same generator with
>resitors, but the output was good. Is there some reason that resistors are
>better, especially considering how dirt cheap and easy to make inductors
>are?
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you need to be sure you have enough inductance that it doesn't sap a significant amount of the
output energy. Getting a high enough inductance with sufficient insulation to avoid arc-over is not
necessarily simpl, and can take up a lot of space.