Re: Rotary Vs Stationary

• To: tesla-at-PUPMAN-dot-com
• Subject: Re: Rotary Vs Stationary
• From: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:43:45 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

In a message dated 6/9/99 10:18:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> 
>      Pardon my lack of knowdege,
>  I would like to know if a rotary spark gap HAS to be synchronous to be
>  successful?
>  and also, would there be much use in a RSG on a 4" coil? (are they mainly 
> for
>  bigger coils?)
>      Thanks, Michael
>  
Michael,

If you have been reading the list for a while, there have been a few test 
reports of smaller coils being run with a syschronous rotary gap compared to 
a static gap and an increase in performance shown.  I don't know if the 
amount of increase warrants the expense - different folks will probably find 
different results since each coil system is somewhat unique.

Once you ramp the power up on a system into the  2 to 3 kva range and higher, 
it generally means you are using power supplies capable of delivering several 
hundred milliamps and run of the mill static gaps will not quench - a rotary 
gap is necessary at these power levels.  I run an asynchronous gap at about 7 
to 8 kva.  I have not seen results that show synchronous gaps improve 
performance at these levels.  I have not tried it.

Ed Sonderman

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