Re: air blast gap

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Original poster: "Jason by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

Justin,

It sounds to me that the air blast is too powerful I imagine for your cap.
It sounds like you are running a very small coil and the air blast is
literally blowing away the ionised air before an arc can form. If I were
you, switch to a multi stage static gap (there is a good design on
powerlabs) or lessen the power of the air blast.

Regards,
Jason
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Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:47 AM
Subject: air blast gap


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