Re: Coiling Waveforms.

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Subject: Re: Coiling Waveforms.
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Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 06:14:11 -0500
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Tuesday, August 05, 1997 6:45 PM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re: Coiling Waveforms.

Hello John,
                Perhaps I should elaborate a little on my original 
answer to this question:
 
> From:   John H. Couture[SMTP:couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net]
> Sent:   Tuesday, August 05, 1997 2:48 AM
> To:     Tesla List
> Subject:    Re: Coiling Waveforms.
> 
> At 04:03 AM 8/4/97 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >From:  Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
> >Sent:  Sunday, August 03, 1997 4:54 PM
> >To:    tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject:   Coiling Waveforms.
> >
> 
> >- To see the rings etc required high speed timebase settings (e.g. 5 
> >and 10 uS.div). I would like to say right here: if you believe that 
> >the secondary gets rung up and up with successive primary shots at 
> >300 BPS, you are wrong! The gap fires showed up as mere blips on a 
> >straight line. Still the sparks wax and wane and grow and die. This
> >is undoubtably an ionic storage/persistence effect.
> >
> 
> >Malcolm
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>   Malcolm -
> 
>   Are you saying that it was possible to count the number of charges (BPS)
> for that special long spark? How did you isolate the long spark? 
> 
>   John Couture

I am looking at the stored ringdown/beat envelope of a *non-breakout*
waveform I captured and stored in the scope *right now*. The waveform 
was captured at 300BPS.
     Time to quench: <25uS   7 complete beat envelopes, Amplitude <25%
of first transfer at quench.
     Time between breaks: 3.33333333333 mS

Does that answer your question?

Malcolm