Re: Safety Gap Puzzle

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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 7/3/01 8:39:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> 
>  Hi Greg, list,
>  
>  I have noticed some longer, thicker streamers when the safety gap fires on
>  my 4" coil, but never thought much of it as my safety gap is a single 
static
>  gap made from two "spoons" hammered out of some 20 mil copper sheet and
>  connected directly across the terminals of the SRSG.

Deano,

When your safety gap fires, the breakrate and power input may be
going much higher than with the SRSG, thus giving longer, thicker
streamers.

John Freau