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About new gap design
I haven't seen any response to my post listed below. Is there any chance
this gap will outperform my existing async rotary? What about heat? Will I
need to make this out of something that will stand a lot of heat, like G10 or
maybe bakelite?
Thanks, Ed Sonderman
As I mentioned the other day, I am designing a new linear gap for my 6" coil
running at 7 kva. I am curious to see if this gap will quench and to compare
it's performance against my async rotary. I plan to use 11 of the 1.0" dia
copper tubing coupling pieces for a total of 10 gaps. I will also use a
vacuum motor to create strong air flow through the gaps - for quenching and
cooling. I plan to design the gap so the copper pipe sections are gapped at
.030" by using small spacers between them at the ends. By changing these
spacers, I will be able to adjust the gap distance.
I am running a 14.4 kv 5kva distribution transformer at about 7 kva. I am
not exactly sure what the output voltage is but know I have some primary
losses due to the inductive and resistive ballast. I am also using the
higher output tap on the variac, so for sake of discussion, let's say the
output is 15 kv. This would be 21,200 volts peak to peak - so the cap would
charge to one half of this or 10,600 volts. How do I determine how wide I
want the gaps set to fire at about 10,000 volts? Is the .300" that I have
planned close?
How about heat dissipation? How hot is this gap going to get? I recall
someone saying that the gap eats up about 7% of the available primary power.
Is this close? Does that mean that I will have 7% of 7kva or about 500 watts
dissipated in the gap?
Thanks, Ed Sonderman