Re: Who needs a quenching gap ?

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Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com 

In a message dated 12/8/00 2:18:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Unfortunately this design, (which was suggested by Terry, when he made
>  his last rotary) cannot be altered in this coil, to make comparisons
>  btwn. 1 and 2 gaps, but the design here really was simplifyed a lot by
>  using this one gap solution, so I used it anyway.
>  
>  I will work on this thing some more on separate gaps, where it will be
>  possible to reverse btwn both configurations, and see, if the loss added
>  in another gap is lower than the loss in the friction contact.

Finn,

You could add an external single static gap in series with the rotary,
to give a total of 2 gaps.

John Freau