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Re: Power curve
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Subject: Re: Power curve
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From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 11:53:16 -0500
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In a message dated 95-11-17 04:44:27 EST, tesla-at-grendel.objinc-dot-com writes:
>HI all,
> Ed Sonderman wrote.....
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>> Back in March of this year, I was using one home made rolled
>> capacitor with 4 12kv 30ma neon transformers and getting 4 feet of
>> spark. This is 360 watts in per foot of spark out.
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>Ed, were you using a rotary or static gap in this setup, and what
>primary capacity were you using?
>
>Malcolm
Malcolm,
I was using one cylindrical gap and one home made rolled poly capacitor -
about .019 mfd. This allowed the primary to be tuned out at the last turn or
so. This capacitor failed after only a few minutes running at that power
level.
Ed Sonderman