Re: magnetic quinching

["BunnyKiller" <bigfoo39-at-telocity-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there knew anything about magnetic
> quinching of a spark gap. I have read some brief references to this
> in some old (turn of the century) literature on Tesla coils. It seems
> like someone mentioned this just a few days ago on the list and it
> aroused my curiousity. It does seem like this is a relatively unex-
> plored territory in the modern Tesla community and maybe, with the
> NIB rare earth magnets that are available today, it would be worth
> looking into.
>
> Pondering,
> David R.

Hi David...


I messed around with magnetic quenching a bit and found that due to the
field polarity of an AC gap doesnt really apply to the concept well ...
if you were to have a DC gap system, you would find better results...

Scot D