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Re: HELP ME PLEASE!
>Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 14:24:08 -0600
>From: Kevin <knardell-at-mailhost.accesscom-dot-net>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE!
>
>
> Do NOT connect your SW caps
>>directly across the neons and run the gaps in series with the primary!
> WHY NOT??????????????????
>> __________
>> (__________) Toroid
>> ( 18"
>> Gap (
>> -----------------||---------) (
>> HV1 | ) (
>> | ) (
>> To _ ) (
>> Neons _ caps ) Primary ( Secondary
>> | ) (
>> | ) (
>> HV2 | ) (
>> -----------------||--------- (
>> Gap (
>> ------------
>> |
>> |
>> -----
>> / / / Dedicated RF Groundrods
>
Kevin,
Because the Rf from your TC primary will EAT the poor neon's
secondary alive! (the neon's secondary is a high impedance to the RF
and the RF will jump OUT of some portion of the neon's secondary:
ruining it!)
If you change the schematic to one with a parallel (to the neon) spark
gap and a series cap(s), when the gap is firing, the LC ringing of the
primary and cap will NOT be across the neon. Why? Because the gap is
conducting; and is effectively a short circuit across the neon's
secondary where you don't want any RF.
Regards,
jim
(I had many of the same questions 14 months ago;)