Strike Rail Usefulness

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Original poster: "Winston Krutsch by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <u236-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Hi All,

	Speaking of strike rails, I've got problem/question.  I DO have a
strike rail on my 6" system, but the coil always goes around it to hit
the primary :-|.  Sometimes it will hit the strike rail, then break off
from it to hit the outermost primary turn.  Almost every spark that goes
"down low" ends up nailing the lower deck, and firing the safety gaps.
I've tightened all the connectors in the ground system, so a bad
connection isn't the problem.

Comments???

Thanks,
Winston K.

PS-I'm in the process of building a new 6" coil, and was testing the new
secondary with the new cap, along with my old vacuum gap and primary.  I
used my 4 H&R xfmrs in series for about 4 kVA.  The gap completely
choked on this, yielding 4.5 feet up top, and looked very flame like.  I
switched in my SRSG, and with rough phasing, got nice 6-7 foot forked
streamers.  With a big toroid, this thing could really cook ;-)))).