Re: chokes

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Jason,

You want to set the safety gaps so they just barely do not fire at your
full rated transformer output voltage.  Simply hook your transformer across
the gaps with nothing else in the circuit.  Then the voltage will just be
the transformer voltage.  You can then fiddle with the gaps to find the
point were they just do not fire.  Of course, be careful of the high
voltage.  Test it, unplug it, and only work on it when the circuit is
completely unpowered...

Since the exact distance varies with the shape, temperature, humidity,
altitude, etc.  It is a little hard to just come up with a set distance to use.

Cheers,

	Terry

At 08:21 PM 3/10/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>hi, everyone
>
>first let me say thanks to jonathon and also to terry for his filter ideal
>and second how big of a gap do we need to use in the safety gaps
>
>thanks jason wallace
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Date: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:17 PM
>Subject: Re: chokes
>
>
>>Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
><Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
>>
>>instead of chokes, try <http://users.better-dot-org/TFritz/NSTFilt.jpg>Terry's
>NST
>>Protection Filter Circuit. you can get all
>>the parts at <www.digikey.htm>Digi-Key-dot-com.  The total is somewhere ~$44
>>
>>good luck,
>>Jonathon
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