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Re: Alternate spark gap config's (fwd)





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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:13:17 -0700
From: Bill Lemieux <gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com>
To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Alternate spark gap config's

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> From:   L.Robertson[SMTP:LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com]
> Sent:   Sunday, January 11, 1998 11:51 PM
> To:     Tesla Builders
> Subject:        Alternate spark gap config's
> 
> Hi ...
> 
> All you folks out there conspiring to make solid state
> stuff, have you thought about using similar circuits
> for the HV side. For instance would this work:
> 
>     >---------------------------------
>                |                     |
>                |                     |
>                |                   ----- Cs1
>                |                   -----
>                |                     |
>                0         Lp          |
>    HV      RSG  \o------OOOOOO-------|
>                0                     |
>                |                   ----- Cs2
>                |                   -----
>                |                     |
>                |                     |
>    >----------------------------------
> 
> A rotary gap would be dead easy to configure to
> alternate like this.

It seems to me that you now have half the xformer's voltage being
applied to your primary, since you are charging the two caps in series,
but discharging them only one at a time.  

-Gomez

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