Re: GMHEICSLR....sort of

[Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>]

Hi Sundog and Marc,

I just thought of something that may help.  I had a high voltage probe and
meter so I could fairly carefully monitor the voltage.  Thus, I could go up
in little steps and set the gap just right.  Also, if the gap did not want
to fire, I knew "when to stop" and readjust it.  Also, dimming the lights
or having a dark background may help see the sparks.  However, they were
easily visible for me, but certainly not super bright...

Marc's 11 inch spark is sort of scary!  Almost too close for comfort!! :-))) 

Cheers,
	
	Terry


At 10:40 PM 8/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
>terry, sundog
>this post makes me feel a little more confident about the results i had
>gotten. you see the one 11" spark that i did get was very thin and wispy
>(barely could see it), that's why i thought one of my hairs had got on
>the electrodes. all the 5" and 6" sparks where strong and bright. the
>long spark was only attained after i soldered up an mmc cap bank of
>1.6uf and made a better spark gap with needle points.
>i had to put that effort down for awhile it was driving me crazy, but
>i'll be back at it in the future.  good luck to those working on this
>and get a few coils, you'll need them.
>marc
>