Re: More on spark delay

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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 4/24/02 2:16:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:


>
> This seems to tell me that most of the input energy is going into EM
> radiation
> with not much of it actually going into the spark itself.  Once the Q fizzles
> out, it seems there's not as much energy transfer.



Ken,

When the spark breaks out, the primary sees a higher impedance,
so the energy transfer may suffer, due to an impedance mismatch
between the driver and the resonator.  I wouldn't think there'd be
all that much radiation though.  I would think a lot of energy would
be burned up in the very thick bright sparks?

Cheers,
John