trigger gap

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Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Hi ,


I was wondering if i would get any benifit from a triggered gap.  MY coil is 
using an 1800VA NST PSU.  I currently have a .0283uf MMC cap.  This is a 
little LTR for my 15000/120 ma PSU.  Im already getting 5 foot arcs.  My 
calculated max output is 6 feet.  Im using a RQ static gap at the moment.  I 
was wandering the net and saw some mentioning of a triggered gap.  Ive seen 
this on the list too.  I also was just looking at Ted Rosenbergs T gap.  Im 
curious as to how specific you need to follow his design.  Do i really need 
to replace the triac inside the dimmer, with a different one??  Also, do i 
need a Wells coil?(i guess i might as well).  If i have to i will double my 
capacitor for .0566uf.  At this power level my RQ gap does get warm even 
with the fan.  So is it worth it??  I also would have to find some tungsten, 
which i havent really tried yet.  I would really like the SRSG but i dont 
have that much money, and i dont have the machine shop available to make a 
rotor.  So how effective is the Tgap??  And does anyone else have plans for 
a Tgap?  Thanks guys,

Steve Ward.