Re: Dual toroid and efficiency tests

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• Subject: Re: Dual toroid and efficiency tests
• From: David Trimmell <davidt-at-pond-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:17:28 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Hello John and all,

This is something that has always interested me. I have noticed in photos
of my coil that I could see more of the "banjo" effect in the spark at
faster shutter speeds. My belief has always been that apparent multiple
breakouts are actually sequential, but due to time/eye response they appear
simultaneous. It would seen that the time between breakouts on the
corrugated toroids is less than the time/breakout with the smooth toroids,
allowing a longer ionization path, thus longer sparks?

Regards,

David Trimmell

At 11:43 AM 8/29/1999 , you wrote:
>Original Poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com 
>
>All,
>

>>>snip<<<<

>
>9.  When the smooth toroid gives multiple streamers, sometimes they
>     might not all be there at the same time; they may be forming
>     sequentially, but the eye's slow frame-rate sees them as existing
>     simultaneously.  In contrast, corregated toroids may be more likely
>     to form actual simultaneous streamers resulting in shorter sparks.
>

>>>snip<<<

>Cheers,
>John Freau
>


>

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