Re: Big Saltwater Cap

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Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>

The servere flicker is an artifact of the animated GIF
production process.  That's the spark gap you're
seeing, not the cap. The GIF is assembled from several
still frames captured from a camcorder.  Given the
60Hz pulsing of the MOT, the camcorder shutter
captured the gap firing sometimes, and not firing
others.  Full motion video from the same coil doesn't
show the flicker.

Greg
--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Irrelative-at-aol-dot-com>
> 
> Regarding that animated GIF, I'm curious what would
> make a saltwater cap do 
> that?  I'm hardly an expert (and I've generally
> avoided SWCs for MMC) but it 
> seems that the distance between the "plates" isn't
> any different in that 
> config with the severe arcing than it is in Greg's,
> which seems to work so 
> well.  If you can explain this, please do  -- it
> killed the cat so what's one 
> more?
>                                                    
> Justin
> 
> 
> 


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