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Re: Dramatic Performance Drop After 5 Seconds?



Sounds like something is heating up and failing.  Maybe you're over working
your MMCs?



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Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 1:28 PM
Subject: Dramatic Performance Drop After 5 Seconds?


> Original Poster: "William Parn" <parn-at-fgm-dot-com>
>
>
> Greets All,
>
> My coil when at 3/4 to full power will run really nice for
> 1-5 seconds and all the sudden the 12" - 14" streamers turn
> into little 1/2" streamers, and the sound changes to a real
> tinny sound.  If I wait a few minutes and turn back on, it
> repeats.
>
> I cleaned and checked to spark gap really well and the same
> thing still happens.
>
> Is it possible my MMCs are shorting partially and then coming
> back to life after being powered down for a few minutes?
>
> It happens very quickly it does not slowly degrade over time.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Bill Parn
>
> PS: I have got some 14" streamers to air with only
> a 9kv-at-30ma NST.  Does anybody know what the record
> is for this little NST?
>
>
>