Re: CW coil top terminals?

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

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> Any thoughts are welcome here.  I hope to soon get this coil running from
> an arbitrary waveform generator.  It is 350kHz but the generator can
> control the power level and I can play with any power envelope I want then
:-))


An ARB is a cool idea... you can simulate a damped sinusoid at an arbitrary
"break rate" and frequency, and study spark formation and growth as a
function of waveshape parameters.  How much power can your ARB put out?
hundreds of Watts?