Re: RSG+Airblast = better performance and less current draw

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Original poster: "david baehr by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dfb25-at-hotmail-dot-com>


Yes, Richard Hull of TCBOR stated this many years ago.I beleive he used a
vacum gap with his rsg on his big coil 'Nemesis', I tried this with my old
coil, but had problems with my ballasting or somthing....gaps would
missfire/not smooth, I could only run a rotary set VERY close on electrode
spacing, hope to find the answer when I light up my new coil........dave

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>Subject: RSG+Airblast = better performance and less current draw 
>Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:30:38 -0700 
> 
>Original poster: "Mr Gregory Peters by way of Terry Fritz " 
> 
>On my six inch coil last night, I used an analogue clamp meter to 
>measure the 11kV pole pigs current draw from the wall. It was drawing 
>16A during normal operation and ~30A when the safety gap fired. Total 
>spark length was 60" with 0.02uF and ~800 BPS. I placed my airblast gap 
>in series with the asynchronous rotary. Spark length rose to over 70" 
>and current draw dropped to 8-10A. I think this is because the air 
>blast allowed better quenching of the spark and reduced the short 
>circuiting of the pole pig. I could now pretty much run this coil from 
>a standard 10A socket with no ballast and get over 70" sparks. 
>OBVIOUSLY I WOULD NEVER DO THIS but technically it is possible. I think 
>alot of the coilers out there could improve their performance if they 
>used a static gap with the rotary (I know of many who don't). I don't 
>know if this would work with synchronous gaps though. Another advantage 
>is that the electrodes of the rotary are less stressed and will last 
>longer. Photos soon. 
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> 
>Cheers, 
> 
> 
>Greg Peters 
>Department of Earth Sciences, 
>University of Queensland, Australia 
>Phone: 0402 841 677 
>http://www.geocities-dot-com/gregjpeters 
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