Re: Neighbors and noise

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
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> In a message dated 8/12/02 8:28:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
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> Chris,
> 
> I would think the arc streamers themselves would be much louder
> than the spark gap.  That's been the case for my coils, and others
> I've seen (and heard).  There's no way to quiet the arc streamers,
> without weakening them, unfortunately.  Maybe if you feed the
> neighbors enough beer, they won't notice the noise, or they'll
> think it's some sort of new heavy metal music, ho ho !
> 
> John

	In the case of my small coil here (30" streamers, 12 kV, 60 ma NST) the
gap contributes most of the noise.  When I run it using my old Amrad
quenched gap (which is almost completely silent) the high-frequency
noise disappears and all I can hear is a loud buzzing and "sizzling"
sound, which probably doesn't carry very far and isn't particularly
annoying.  Might not be true for bigger, higher powered or more
efficient coils. 

Ed