Re: Design for Syncronous Rotary Gap

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Original poster: "teri mckenney by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mck-at-ezy-dot-net>

hey Jonathon,
My bad, I was thinking you had a 15/60 nst.
Billy
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Subject: Re: Design for Syncronous Rotary Gap


> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Kidd6488-at-aol-dot-com>
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> >
> > Using 9
> > caps in series is only 18kvdc which you can get away with but I wouldn't
> > push it "to" hard.
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> I thought about this, but 9 would be the cheapest, and easiest to
assemble.
>
> 12,000 * 1.414 = ~17,000
>
> thats under 18kV... plus, I believe the geek caps were tested to 4 or 5kV
each?
> (double check, terry?)
>
> I haven't run the coil really long, but I've had no problems so far. Even
with
> the spark gap set too wide, and the saftey gaps not working... I think the
MOVs
> were the only thing saving my butt........
> ---------------------------------------
> Jonathon Reinhart
> hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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