RE: synchronous vac gap!?!

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>

I have also noted that for brief periods at certain reduced variac
settings, the static gap will settle into a synchronous 60 BPS mode of
operation.  This would last a few seconds at most, then degenerate into the
"normal" chaotic mode.

Gary Lau
MA, USA


>Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Hi all,
>
>some bizaar news!  I was running my 15/120 coil with the Gary Lau sucker gap 
>(works awesome now!!) and some new CD caps.  The coil was constantly getting 
>64" to the ground!  But more interesting, was the tone of the coil.  It 
>sounded just like 120BPS.  And it sounded like this for several seconds 
>(well the entire run)!  Im comparing it to a video clip of a SRSG coil that 
>specially said to note the perfect sounding opperation.  MY coil sounded 
>PERFECT!!!  It would only be disturbed when the arcs hit the ground.  Very 
>cool effect, and the acrs moved around slowly and beautifully like this, 
>quite awesome.  I think that the gap was set at about .28".  Making it 
>larger improved performance, but it lost that perfect pitch.  Im bringing 
>this coil to the Wis. Teslathon, so hopefully i can reproduce these results! 
>  Anyone else ever have this?
>
>Steve Ward.