Re: Three phase TC

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

John,

I remember seeing you and Lou run this system last year - quite a nice
setup, but really tough to synchronize! I bet that multiple triggered gaps
would indeed do the trick! 

-- Bert --
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Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
Email:    bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net
Web Site: http://www.teslamania-dot-com

Tesla list wrote:
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> Bert, all,
> 
> The triggered gap idea may be good for what Lou Balint is working
> with also.  Lou uses two power supplies, tanks, rotaries, and
> secondaries, and uses these to feed a single magnifier secondary.
> Because of the rotary timing jitter and impreciseness, he has
> to fire one gap, then the other right after it, both near the 60HZ
> AC peak, rather than firing both at the same time which gives
> random RF phasing and poor spark output (120 bps).  The
> triggered gap idea may let him fire both gaps at the same time
> at the 60Hz peak, keeping the RF from both units in phase.
> The two units would need to be well tuned to the same frequency
> to remain in phase during a bang.  Of course his
> original purpose was to use 3 power supplies,
> etc, and run each off one phase of a 3 phase supply, in which
> case the RF phases don't matter.  His purpose in doing this
> is to permit a huge coil to be built, using smaller components,
> if the larger components are too expensive, or not available, etc.
> 
> Triggered gaps are something I'd like to experiment with.
> 
> John Freau