Re: rotary gaps and neons

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

Hi Greg, 

In a message dated 10/2/01 10:47:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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>
> So it looks as though 
> my new "mega coil" is going to have to run on a BIG neon bank, which 
> fortunately are relatively cheap. I have heard that it is not desirable 
> to use rotary gaps with neon trannys. Why is this? 
>
> Greg. 


        Its Asynchronous rotary gaps that are hard on NSTs. The Synchronous gap
works just fine. Much detail on building and adjusting a SRSG in the archives. 

Matt D. 
G3-1085