Re: Quenching Question

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Quenching Question
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:24:45 -0500
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Wednesday, September 03, 1997 9:34 PM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re: Quenching Question

Hi Julian,
            You can bat me over the head if you like. I didn't read 
your question properly.....

> > From:   Julian Green[SMTP:julian-at-kbss.bt.co.uk]
> > Sent:   Wednesday, September 03, 1997 11:45 AM
> > To:     tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> > Subject:    Quenching Question
> > 
> > Following my attempts to get scope shots of my coil (images comming Malcolm)
> > with and without spark breakout I am wondering the reasons for good quenching.
> > 
> > I have proved that fast quenching increases spark length - but why?

I wrote :(
 
> It is exactly the other way around according to my observations :) A 
> well connected spark drains the energy *fast*. An air streamer causes 
> Q to remain fairly high and hence the trades can continue. 

Acoording to what I've *just* seen, bottling the energy up in the 
secondary should indeed improve the output, esp. if the secondary has
a nice high Q.

My profuse apologies,
Malcolm