Re: rotary failure

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Cydesho-at-aol-dot-com>

>From the amount of smoke that came out of the motor, I would think that it 
would be pretty obvious where the motor was damaged.  And yes, my motor was 
within 16" of my primary. It was actually probably 8 inches below the 
primary. I didn't have any extensive amounts of wire running to the motor, 
but I guess at that proximity it wouldn't matter much. I also noticed some 
other odd effects while I had the SRSG wired into my coil.  I have some 
chokes between my capacitors and my NST and normally they don't cause any 
problems. With the SRSG, they got very hot and began to smoke. I also noticed 
some flashes coming from the outlet that my coil was plugged into. Besides 
all of that, I wasn't getting any output from my toroid.  My best guess is 
that the pulses in the primary induced current to form in the windings of the 
motor, which caused it to run way out of sync. Since my rotary gap was 
ruining asynchronously, it was easier for the arcs to form across the safety 
gap. I assume that this is why it was firing so much. With the safety gap 
firing, the capacitor would be dumping a lot of current through my chokes, 
which was causing them to overheat. As for the flashes coming from the 
outlet, I really have no idea what could have caused that, unless the current 
being induced in the windings of the motor was high enough voltage to arc 
between the prongs on the plug. Oh well, back to the old static gap. Maybe 
I'll try out a triggered gap, when the designs are more finalized.
                                    Justin