Re: tube spark gaps

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Alexander Rice by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <alex-at-rices.myip-dot-org>
> 
> Dear R.
>         I can second this - i tried runnung a coils with about 10 of the
small
> creamic
> encapsulated gaps and found to my surprise that it made almost no
> differnece to the
> amount of noise the coil made even though the gap itself was silent
> 
> Alex Rice

	I use a single one of those gaps (are you talking about the ones All
had for sale a year or so back) in my small TC, and it is much quieter
than when using the cylinder gap it replaced.  In this case a lot of the
noise seems to be coming from the gap and not from the streamers.  When
I ran a bigger coil using an enclosed quenched gap the results were just
about as you describe.

Ed