Re: What is CW, was Critical TC Size

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

In a message dated 8/16/01 10:23:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Original poster: "D.Wightman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <
> dwightman-at-mmcable-dot-com>
>  
>  A very simple question, What is "CW" mode?
>  Thanks.
>  D.Wightman

D,

Tube coils and solid state coils run in CW mode.  It's like
a radio transmitter constantly feeding power to the coil.
This is in contrast to the capacitive discharge/ damped
wave approach used in spark gap TCs.  CW means
continuous wave, and it's use in TCs is "inefficient" for
producing long sparks.

John Freau