Re: Sync Gap Timing (was Triggered Gaps)

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Bill,

After PFC caps, NST reactive charging, filter circuits....  There is no set 
place to fire at.  Simply adjust the gap for the best sparks and you can't 
go wrong ;-))

Cheers,

         Terry


At 10:44 PM 11/16/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Tesla list wrote:
> >
> > Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz 
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
> > Seems easy enough to build, has anyone made one, if
> > so, how did you drive the third electrode such that
> > it promoted gap breakdown at the right times?
> > (peak and troughs of the NST AC sinewave.)
>
>This has been asked before, but it keeps coming up, and always bugs me:
>Do you want the gap to fire at the AC peaks and troughs, or at the zero
>crossings?
>
>Seems to me you would want it at the zero crossings.  Between two zero
>crossings, there is a rising, then falling, but always positive (or
>negative) charge being applied.  Between a peak and a trough, there is a
>positive then negative charge applied, cancelling each other.  No?
>
>(I'm assuming 120 bps)
>
>         -  Bill  V.