Re: Can you have too much air through a SG? (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Can you have too much air through a SG? (fwd)
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:27:02 -0700 (MST)
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:03:19 +0000
From: Greg Leyh <lod-at-pacbell-dot-net>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Can you have too much air through a SG?

> I've just built a R.Quick style cylindrical gap for my first coil,
> using a 4" pipe and 22mm copper tubes, with a VERY powerful 9" EBM
> centrifugal fan I had lying around, boxed up to route the air through
> the PVC pipe. If I had a tennis ball handy, it'd probably float on the
> airflow - seriously windy!
> Obviously you can never have too much cooling, but can excessive
> airflow impair gap performance?

The 160kW Heise coil in Germany (circa 1964) used a 
massive single static gap, "with a supersonic blast
of air directed diagonally across the gap".

More air velocity is probably better.


-GL