RE: multiple gap question

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• Subject: RE: multiple gap question
• From: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau-at-compaq-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:06:55 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Is it possibly that the phase to one or your paralleled NST's needs to be
reversed?  If you can't jump a .018" gap, your voltage is lacking.  With
nothing else hooked up to the paralleled NSTs, can you draw an arc from each
HV terminal to the case?

Gary Lau
Waltham, MA USA

>>>The mmc is at 0.011 uF. Not even a gap of 0.018-0.020 will fill a 0.022
uF mmc.
 
>>You mean to say that with a  _single_  .018-.020 gap, it won't break down 
>>when charging a .022uF cap?

>Yep! Nary a spit with a 15/60 in parallel with a 15/30. And the NSTs have 
>been checked by
>meter and used in the circuit. The gap is a 3-ball adjustable gap.    
->-O O O--

>> I use a 15/60 with a .02uF cap and it runs quite nicely with a 0.34" (not
0.034") gap.
>>Something is wrong, and it's not the gap.
.

>Happy day,
>Ralph Zekelman

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