Re: Gap Power Levels

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 8/12/02 7:06:02 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

Bart wrote:

<< I tried a triggered air-cooled RQ gap up to 4kVA and although it worked
 fine, it
 just didn't perform as well as my RSG. I also ran the same gap without the
 trigger
 and it didn't change much. >>

Hi Bart,

So you were able to run the triggered gap at 4 kVA but it didn't perform
as well as it did with the RSG. It would appear that the triggered gap
obviously was not quenching or dissipating heat as effectively as the
RSG. I would assume if you increased the power level further beyond
4 kVA that the decreased performance of the triggered gap as opposed
to the RSG would only become more prominent. I think this emphasizes
my point, that an RSG (whether sync or asynch) is basically essential
for pole pig level coiling. As I said before, just MHO. If someone can 
prove me wrong, then please do as I would really be intersted in seeing
a stationary RQ style SG operating at > 5 kVA power levels that actually 
worked as well ( had equal length output streamers ) as its RSG 
counterpart :-)

Sparkin' in Memphis,
David Rieben