Re: Async gap with rectified NST PS

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

In a message dated 10/22/01 10:22:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> I would rectify the NST
>  output, thereby protecting them from the async gap tendency to otherwise
>  allow excessive voltage rise in the tank circuit.  Will this work without
>  putting the NSTs at too great a risk?  The Maxwell caps I am using will 
each
>  have there own spark gap protection.
>  
>  Aric

Aric,

I would think that using such a high breakrate, the voltage would
never go very high, even without rectification.

Cheers,
John