Re: Fw: frequency (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: Fw: frequency (fwd)
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:34:30 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

> Original Poster: "LWRobertson" <LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com> 
> 
> Hi ...
> 
> I had a N x M rotary gap hooked up that would
> give in excess of 800 BPS one time on a DC
> circuit. After about 750 BPS the spark changed
> radically from quite an intense disruptive discharge,
> to a much shorter but more continuous and musical
> sounding sort of flame-like arc. At the time I thought
> it must be emulating a CW coil, but the rotary was
> in no way sync'd to the coil frequency. Maybe the
> arc was starting to conduct continuosly a la Jacob's
> ladder.
> 
> LR

Sounds like you were beating ion recombination times.

Malcolm 

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