Re: TSG Influence on transformer

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Original poster: "Kamil Kompa by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tcmail-at-poczta.fm>

Sorry, but I forgot to say You in post that I have sent few minutes ago (below)
that secondary of my power transformer was not grounded (the center of
secondary 
was not grounded). Perhaps When I will wind my transformer again I will
make secondary that I will be able to connect to ground. I think it may be 
important. 
By the way, Is there anybody using TSG and transformer with not 
grounded secondary? Are there many people using such transformers 
with TC's, or it's a bad idea not to ground secondary of power transformer? 

>Hi !
>
>I hawe made a triggered spark gap, and today I wanted to test it with my TC.
>Unfortunately it was working only about 2 minutes and then my 
>power transformer was destroyed (there was an arcing inside the transformer).
>I used my TSG only with tank circuit assembled, so I haven't even seen if my
>TC works better with this gap then with copper pipe gap (with 3 gaps,
1.5mm each
>it makes about 1m streamers). It's not a problem that my transformer is
destroyed,
>because I wound it with self made machine, so I can do this again. I want
to ask You
>if TSG can influence transformer? My transformer was 11.5kV. 
>TSG driver (dimmer and ignition coil) voltage was much higher 
>(spark could be about 5cm long). Could this fact cause the damage?
>What do You think about this? Was the damage normal power transformer failure,
>or too high voltage of TSG could cause arcing inside the transformer?
>Thank You for all sugestions.
>
>Kamil Kompa


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