Re: Bert's comments on self-C

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• Subject: Re: Bert's comments on self-C
• From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
• Date: Mon, 2 Sep 1996 09:30:56 +1200

Hi all, in reply,

> I think Malcolm had a coilform that had several layers of polythene 
> sheet wrapped around it (the base form was a cardboard or similar tube, 
> I think). I wonder if the coil was being shunted by ionised air trapped 
> in the layers and this was accounting for the apparently low Q.

This was a low level sig gen test. I did eventually power the coil up 
to a modest level and did get sparks OK but it was far from wonderful.

Malcolm

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