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Subject: Start up question
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 16:32:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
When I attempt to fire up my three inch coil, most of the time it won't
fire
for a while after I turn it on. I slowly turn up the variac and finally
get
to full power and it just sits there - with no gap firing for sometimes
many
seconds, then it will finally take off. Once it has started, I can
power it
down very low on the variac setting and the gaps are still firing. Then
I
can turn it off and back on and get everything to work as I expect from
then
on, with the gaps starting to fire at about 35% of full variac control.
I am using a 12kv 30 ma neon with a Richard Quick cylindrical gap. Five
gaps
each set at about .028". I have tried changing transformers, same
thing. I
added another one in parallel and it had to sit at full power for almost
a
minute before it started running - then worked properly.
What is happening here? Is it something to do with the capacitor? It
is a
rolled poly cap with two layers of .062 poly between each plate for
about
.005 mfd.
Ed Sonderman