Re: Better Gap Worth Effort

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Subject: Re: Better Gap Worth Effort
From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 08:47:11 +1200
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Organization: Massey University at Wellington, NZ
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Reply-to: malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz

Hi Luc,

> Original Poster: "Luc" <ludev-at-videotron.ca> 
> 
> Hi all
> 
> If I understand the coupling have an influence on how fast the energy is
> transfer
> to the secondary but if you increase the coupling you have racing spark
> :Maybe it
> could be an improvement to increase the insulating quality of the coating
> of the
> coil without increasing to much the self capacitance ( high insulating factor
> ,low dielectric coating) .Could this approach be helpful : Increasing transfer
> ,decreasing quenching time , less lose in gap?

You can put as much insulation on the coil as you like without 
affecting Cself. The insulation is effectively in series with a bunch of 
air dielectrically speaking. I think you might mean decresing dwell 
time? In that case it does rob the gap of power.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Re: Better Gap Worth Effort

From: "Luc" <ludev-at-videotron.ca> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)