Re: secondary coil form materials

["J. Kooiman" <jkooi-at-wish-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi John,

I still have a question about your BPS rate,
you state, that with 60 Hz and a static gap you get a higher frequency than
120 Hz.
That could be,  if you would put the gap closer together than the maximal
setting, but then you've got a new problem :
Because if they would be closer together, then you wouldn't be charging your
cap to it's full load, since it won't fire
at the peak of the sinus.


> Also, static gaps tend to fire erratically; not at a pure 120 bps, but
> may fire at a mixture of 120 and 240 bps, etc, with firings skipped,
> at times, etc... very erratic.

As stated here above, I conclude that it is at the peak of the sinus and
operating at 120 BPS, but if it than skips,
how on earth will the break-rate go UP ??

just a thought .....

greetings from Jeroen Kooiman, from Holland



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: secondary coil form materials


> Original poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 7/14/00 3:46:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> >
> >  I don't understand.  Unless I'm seriously missing something, a "static"
gap
> >  _will_ break at 120 b/sec, at least on a 60 Hz power line.  Is the
ability
> >  to adjust the phase between the breaks and the power-line
zero-crossings
> the
> >  relavant issue?
> >
> >                          Puzzled,
> >                                    d
> >
> >  PS -- Nice toroids!  I'll remember you as a source.
>
> Thanks d.  A static gap can break at just about any bps on a 60 Hz
> power line.  Maybe I should add some more info that explains that
> at my webpage.  If the power is great for the size of the cap, or the
> spark gap narrow, the cap will be able to charge up and fire multiple
> times during each ac half cycle giving a bps that's higher than 120.
> Also, static gaps tend to fire erratically; not at a pure 120 bps, but
> may fire at a mixture of 120 and 240 bps, etc, with firings skipped,
> at times, etc... very erratic.
>
> The ability to adjust the phase as you said, and also the steadiness
> of a sync gap's firing, are the relevent issues.  The ability to adjust
> the phase, and the way that the electrodes move into position, lets
> the voltage build up higher using a sync gap.
>
> Cheers,
> John Freau
>
>
>
>