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Re: Parallel or Series
From: Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 1997 1:28 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Parallel or Series
On Sunday, September 14, 1997 4:59 AM David Hutchison
[SMTP:DavidH8083-at-aol-dot-com] wrote;
> In a message dated 9/14/97 3:58:52 AM, Dr. Resonance wrote:
>
> <<Always run the sparkgap in parallel with your xmfr. After the gap the cap
> goes in series with the top (tapped) end of the primary of the resonance
> xmfr. >>
>
> This suggestion makes excellent sense to me, and yet it is exactly the
> opposite of the classic Tesla Coil schematic. Or am I looking at the wrong
> end of things here? Also, I recently received a series of books on Tesla
> construction and design with maybe half dozen or so plans, and every single
> one of them from the smallest tabletop to the biggest monster sticks to the
> old classic schematic with the capacitor in parallel with the xmfr and the
> gap in series. Has there been a recent change of philosophy about this? The
> arc in parallel seems much more sensible, though I sort of hate to fly in the
> face of Tesla's own design.
The general reasoning behind putting the spark gap across the
transformer is that there it also acts as a safety gap to protect the
transformer from over voltage spikes. I personaly never use that
arrangement, I put my caps across the transformer and I also put a
safety gap across the transformer. Others have claimed to have had
transformers damaged in the arangement I use but I have never
experienced this.
Sincerely
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