(Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena

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• Subject: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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• Date: Sat, 7 Feb 1998 01:22:22 -0600
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From:  Scott Stephens [SMTP:stephens-at-enteract-dot-com]
Sent:  Thursday, February 05, 1998 4:21 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena

At 12:58 AM 2/5/98 -0600, you wrote:

>snip
>
>>With the extending spark increasing the capacitance of the coil, I would
>>expect best performance when the coil is tuned higher than resonance, so the
>>coil becomes dynamicaly matched to a spark.

Oops, I thought wong.

>snip
>
>Scott,
>
>I have found that I always have to dynamically tune to a lower than resonant
>frequency to account for operational spark loading via capacitive ionization
>paths in order to maximize the spark output from a big coil.
>

Spark-path increased 2ndary capacitance, so lower 2ndary frequency, so tune
the primary to a lower frequency. That makes sense.

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