Re: A question about SSTC tuning

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Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>

I think if you are using a scope to tune your SSTC, you are just getting too
ridiculously technical.  No better way to tune it than to actually run it
and tune it till you get the best spark output.  Nothing to it.

Also, your SSTC should have some way of adjusting the frequency as when an
arc propogates, it actually detunes the toroid/secondary lumped circuit to
the rest of the circuit thereby killing itself.

Dan