Re: Lousy Losses

[FutureT-at-xxxxxxx (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-xxxxxxxxxx>)]

In a message dated 11/5/00 3:13:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net> 
>  
>  Hi Albert, 
>  
>  Good post. I think we all agree regarding the sparkgap. But regarding the
>  secondary former, I was under the assumption that the Q measurement was 
low 
> in
>  comparison to other plastic formers. If this is the case, then there is
>  something more to the cardboard forms. I agree that cardboard forms will 
> work
>  just fine and any difference in performance is probably difficult to see, 
> but
>  once you've gone as far as you can with your spark gap, etc.., why not try 
> to
>  build a higher Q secondary. 

Al,  all,

And if you really want the longest sparks from your coil, try a thin
wire secondary and a 120 bps sync gap     :)    But if you use the
120 bps, the cap has to be the correct size.  

For those who haven't seen this info, it's at:

   http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html

John Freau