Re: : The big bad Mark III

["Mark Broker" <broker-at-uwplatt.edu> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

>  I am not elaborate enough for a rotary gap yet, esp. since I will be
> running
>  this coil off of a 15 amp 120 circuit. I think if a suitable motor would
>  even run off of 120 it would probably put me overbudget on amps. I will
>  probably start with the RQ gap from my last coil, then build a better one
>  when I have the time. The RQ gap I have is not well built, but it does the
>  job. The main problem I think is that the pipe lengths are only 1", thats
>  not alot of surface area for heat sinking. The gap is in a 4" pvc pipe and
>  cooled by a muffin fan.

So the only circuit in your house/apt/condo is 15A ;-)  Run the motor on one
circuit, and the NSTs on another.

Mark