Re: DC POWER

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Original poster: "Chris Swinson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <exxos-at-cps-games.co.uk>

Hi Steve,

> By charging the tank cap with the primary in series, you get a "bang" for
each
> position of the switch, and the inductance of the primary greatly reduces
the
> stress of the tank cap being charged.  So you get double the BPS and
fairly
> efficient operation.  No power wasting series resistor is required.  The
DC
> supply does require a filter cap of at least 20 times the capacitance of
the
> tank cap.

The ASCII didn't come out right for me :(  Maybe you could scan and send to
me what you mean ?  At the moment my cap is across the DC supply, spark gap
and primary are in series. I did try cap and primary in series with AC a
long time ago and it didn't make any difference. Though it makes me wonder
now that you say series cap and pri if this would actually work better with
DC than AC.....

Chris