Re: Triggered gap questions

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Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ludev-at-videotron.ca>

Hi Brian 

I have knowledge of your work but did you try the trigatron in
tesla service.

Cheers,

Luc Benard

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Basura, Brian by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <brian.basura-at-unistudios-dot-com>
> 
> Luc,
> 
> Good information except that paper has the name Marconi on it (Yuck..) . :)
> 
> Anyway back on topic, I've made a couple of trigatrons from scratch. If you
> want to see pictures of their construction, firing circuit details, and
> application check either of the following URL's
> 
> http://fp2.hughes-dot-net/brianb/pulse_discharge.htm (the trigatron is about
> half way down the page)
> 
> http://users.better-dot-org/roverstreet/projects/Pulse/pulse.htm
> 
> Regards,
> Brian B.
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:   Friday, July 27, 2001 6:07 AM
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> Subject:        Re: Triggered gap questions
> 
> Original poster: "Luc by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <ludev-at-videotron.ca>
> 
> Hi Mike
> 
> I have a paper that could interested you on my download site:
> 
> http://homepage.mac-dot-com/ludev/
> 
> When there open the folder "Tesla" and download the document
> "3elec_sg.pdf" It's really interesting and I'll try to base my
> future trigger gap in this concept ( the trigger electrode out of
> the way of the 2 main electrodes ).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Luc Benard
> 
> Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>
> >
> > Ok,  Here's a question for the triggered gap gurus:
> >     I have been reading this thread with much interest.  It sounds like a
> > great alternative to the SRSG!    One thing I read is that the primary
> > current passes 'through' the trigger electrode.  My question is, could the
> > trigger electrode be positioned slightly out of alignment with the primary
> > gap electrodes so the triggered arc would have to take a slightly 'bent'
> > path?  This, if so, would seem to me to help alleviate heating and/or
> > corrosion of the trigger electrode.
> >    It would seem that the trigger electrode could be made into a sharp
> point
> > and cause the ionization of the space between the gap electrodes
> 
> I'll try a flyback circuit too, because may be the RF corona from
> it could be sufficient to trigger the gap ????
> 
>  to provide
> > the conductive channel to form more easily and not actually have the
> primary
> > current contact the trigger electrode at all(or very little anyway).   If
> the
> > trigger electrode were positioned from below the primary gap electrodes,
> the
> > heat might also help 'move' the arc away from the trigger electrode.
> >  The first objection to this idea, I imagine, is that might argue that
> this
> > would effectively make the gap too wide and kill a NST, but if one placed
> > another gap or two in series, the triggered gap could have a large
> percentage
> > length change, but the overall gap length would not change by much.
> Having
> > the series gaps would also seem to aid quenching as well.
> > Comments?
> > Mike
> >
> >