Re: 2 foot sparks - need more garage!

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: 2 foot sparks - need more garage!
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:40:33 -0500
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From: 	richard hull[SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: 	Wednesday, July 23, 1997 3:07 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: 2 foot sparks - need more garage!

At 03:44 AM 7/23/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>From: 	Alan Sharp[SMTP:100624.504-at-CompuServe.COM]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, July 22, 1997 6:20 PM
>To: 	INTERNET:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: 	Re: 2 foot sparks - need more garage!
>
>snip

>Why do I get the most impressive arcs when
>its just switched on?
>
>Have fun,
>
>Alan Sharp (UK).
>
>
>
>Alan,

The caps may be at fault here.  It is common for poor caps to wok fairly
well when first activated and as they adjust to the power levels and start
diassapating a good bit of power, the sparks fall off rather rapidly, or
change color toward the red-violet.  This is just a guess from experience,
though.

Richard Hull, TCBOR