Re: air blast gap

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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 9/8/01 10:15:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

> I've been trying different variations of air blast gaps on my coil 
recently, 
>  and I've had a small problem. It seems that the faster the air is blasted 
>  into the gap, the more unreliable the gap is. After a few seconds of run 
> time 
>  the gap will abruptly stop firing and I have to flip the power off and 
back 
>  on again to get it to start firing. Sometimes it wont stop firing at all, 
> and 
>  sometimes is does it quite often. Is there any way to remedy this? 
>                                          Justin

Justin,

You probably need to make the gap spacing a little narrower 
when a lot of air is blasting into it, to permit it to fire steadily.

John Freau