Re: Voltage reversal

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• Subject: Re: Voltage reversal
• From: Mark Finnis <mefinnis-at-medicine.adelaide.edu.au> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 08:35:05 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

At 12:12  04/11/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Herwig Roscher" <herwig.roscher-at-gmx.de>
>
>Hello coilers!
>
>Prior to designing my own polycap, I wanted to buy one and sent the spec to
>some companies. The main problem - besides the price of course - was the
>100% voltage reversal, that shortens the expected life drastically.
>
>I wonder, whether the use of a HV bridge rectifier between xformer and main
>gap would help, to keep the cap alive a little bit longer.

Nope.

This is an error of thought which I had for some time.  The voltage 
reversal persists even for a DC supplied coil as the tank "rings" after the 
bang .......

Alas, you still need a high rep rate pulse cap :-(

Cheers

Mark

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