New webPage, torrid and NTS filter Questins.

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Original poster: "Alex Madsen by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alexmadsen-at-yahoo-dot-com>

I Just lanced my new WebPages. There are bound to me multiple grammatical
errors with it for the next couple of days, but here it is:
www.geocities-dot-com\alexmadsen

The maximum discharge length I can get to a copper rod is 24 in. My coil is
powered by a 15/60 with a 6.25X26 in secondary and it seems I should be able
to do better then that. I think my torrid is severely over sized. The Torrid
Diameter Tube Center-to-Center is 22 in, the tube diameter is 5.5 inches. It
can only  breakout with a breakout point, the best I found is a 1/4 in bolt.
What would the ideal torrid be for my coil.

On the schematic I used for my NST filter it showed the spark gap on the
capacitor side of the NTS 1k power resistors. From the message below and
another
Filter diagram (b) I found it indicates that the spark gap should be on the
NST
side of the powere resistors. Which one is correct?
Here are the Two diagrams -at- bottom of page.
http://www.geocities-dot-com/alexmadsen/capacitors.htm
Alex Madsen
# 1147
> The only time "another" safety gap across the primary cap is needed is if
> it is a commercial cap that will fail if it is overvoltaged just once.
> However, even then the normal safety gaps should protect it.  There are
> some people that like to put a safety gap across these expensive caps just
> as added insurance.  However, just a gap alone will short the cap directly
> without any current limiting.  A 200,000+ amp pulse will destroy most caps
> that are not rated for it.  Even pulse caps may be damaged...  So if you
> put a big 100-1000 ohm resistor in series with the safety gap across the
> capacitor, it will limit the short circuit current to say 20 amps which
> will not destroy the cap but will discharge it.
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