Re: Neighbors and noise

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Boris,

Possibly I didn't state the last sentence in my post correctly. Basically,
I meant coilers may assume
the gap is suppose to be loud, yet in a coil that I would consider
efficient at turning power into
sparks, just the opposite occurs = air sparks are louder. So if coilers
here their gap over their
sparks, then that is a sign that the coil could use some attention.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "boris petkovic by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <petkovic7-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> > > 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).
> >
> > On my first coil, the gap was definately louder than
> > the sparks.  It just goes to
> > show how poorly that first
> > coil was running due to my inexperience.
> >
> > I just thought I'd throw that in there incase others
> > assume their coils are
> > running
> > fine and the gap is suppose to be louder than the
> > sparks.
> >
> ---
> I suppose that in any disruptive TC ,streamers
> shooting in air ( no contact with ground path) are
> more silent than gap explosions.
> Power arcs from secondary are much more lauder than
> "streamers".In most cases,for fixed power used larger
> the topload stronger the shock wave produced by power
> arc.
>
> regards,
> Boris