Re: Tuning a safety gap . . .

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

Dan,

A third way, just to keep it interesting...

I adjust mine until they just *barely* fire with only the NST. I find that
with my coil tuned properly they don't fire at all, or rarely. I like this
method because I know for sure that the safety gap is protecting my NST. I
don't find it to affect performance at all.

Regards,

Jonathan Peakall

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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:00 PM
Subject: Tuning a safety gap . . .


> Original poster: "Daniel McCauley by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <dhmccauley-at-spacecatlighting-dot-com>
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> I've just got my NST and finished building my NST "ala Terry Fritz"
filter.
> I in the process of tuning my safety gaps, but so far i am hearing two
> different stories on this newsgroup:
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> 1.  Adjust safety gap just until it doesn't fire.
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> 2.  Adjust safety gap just until it doesn't fire and then move it an
> additional "x" fraction of an inch.
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> So which is it???
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> Thanks
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> Dan
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