(Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena

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• Subject: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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• Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:58:54 -0600
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From:  richard hull [SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent:  Wednesday, February 04, 1998 5:56 PM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena

At 11:00 AM 2/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From:  Scott Stephens [SMTP:stephens-at-enteract-dot-com]
>Sent:  Wednesday, February 04, 1998 12:31 AM
>To:  Tesla List
>Subject:  Re: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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>At 02:15 PM 2/3/98 -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.

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.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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