RE: RSG question

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Subject: RE: RSG question
From: Dale Hall <Dale.Hall-at-trw-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 17:39:08 -0700
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Hi Phil & other So CA Coilers,

1.) I live and work in Redondo Beach and am happy to
    have visitors help me play with my battery powered DC TC.

Did you attend the Basura So Calif Teslathon this summer in Acton ?
Where are you located ?

The last Sat of every month is the TRW swapmeet

** NEXT one is this SAT, yes Dec 25th !!! Merry Xmas !! **

(7AM TO ~noon, 405 to W on Rosecrans S on Aviation
at SW corner of Marine in Manhattan Beach).
Master coiler, Bill Wysock, usually attends as a seller,
 lately showing up with different coils.

2.) Breaking the hot arc with an insulator 
destroys most insulators or carbonizes them
which prolongs the break.

Teflon may work but it will be tough to get the electrodes
as close as rotating them can. Teflon ablates (vaporizes)
 in the presense of high energy discharges. 
See NASA has experimented with the technology, PPT Pulsed Plasma Thrusters.
Close spacing results in desriable lower gap resistance/impedance.
Rotating the electrodes also helps keep them cool
an important objective.
All these become harder as the switched gap power increases
(higher current and higher BPS).
Likely to be most sucessful at Low power levels.

If you try it report results to the list.

regards, Dale
Redondo Beach, CA
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Subject: RSG question


Original Poster: Phillip Heslin <pheslin-at-home-dot-com> 

Hi all,

  I am new to coiling and like many others I am working on my first coil
and have a few questions:

1) Are there any regular events/gatherings in the southern California
area? I would love meet other coilers and see their coils in operation.

2) I am planning to build an RQ style spark gap for coil but I am sure
that later I will want to try building a rotary. My question is has
anyone ever attempted to build an RSG in which instead of having
electrodes mounted on the spinning disk there are simply holes or slots
in a disk spinning between two stationiary electrodes?

Phil Heslin