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Re: An Interesting Problem





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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 19:28:47 -0400
From: "Daryl P. Dacko" <mycrump-at-cris-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: An Interesting Problem 

At 04:06 PM 10/13/97 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>            I've some up against an interesting conundrum that I 
>expect others have struck at odd times (no, I haven't scoped it).
>I recently fitted more top C to my largest coil, added a turn to the 
>primary and removed about 20% of the primary capacitance to tune it 
>back up. With the radius of curvature at the top it is now having 
>trouble breaking out at the energy level the primary is running at
>(around 2.7J). When it does, it throws a few hot ones, stops dead and 
>either continues to burp in this fashion or needs to be switched off 
>and on again at the wall to get the gap to fire again. The primary 
>voltage is rather low, *but*, it does run reliably and steadily if I 
>add a bump or small point to the terminal in which case it now throws 
>a steady streamer (which waxes and wanes in length as usual).
>    The question: if the gap can clearly fire at this setting, what 
>is stopping it in its tracks when the thing does break out on 
>occasions? Any answers?
>
>Malcolm

Most of my coils have been pretty underpowered, and I've seen exactly
the same behavior myself while fireing a coil with too large of a
topload.

I haven't the slightest notion what could cause this behavior, but
I'd sure like to find out ;'}

Daryl