Re: Geek Gap Mark-1

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Original poster: "Garry F. by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <garryfre-at-pacbell-dot-net>

So, actually, my first guess was right. You had way too much capacitance for
your circuit.


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Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 4:27 PM
Subject: RE: Geek Gap Mark-1


> Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> >Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
> ><twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
> >
> >The only time I have seen something like this are the following
conditions
> >....
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> >The cap was too large.
>
> Nope.
>
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>
> The problem was I had WAY too much cap in the circuit. I pulled 2 of the 6
strings and the cap sings as it's stuffing 46.5" arcs through the toroid to
> a grounded rod (that's todays' measurement).
>

Did you mean to say the gap sings?