Re: Vacuum/blast gap

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Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>




>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>Subject: Re: Vacuum/blast gap
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:16:36 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>
>
>Steve,
>
>Cut a slot somewhere, and cover as much of it as you need with tape. Holes
>can make a nasty squealing noise. Funny that you went back to the RQ gap, 
>my
>experience was the opposite. I never got decent performance from the RQ (my
>implementation, I am sure) but the sucker gap improved performance a lot. I
>wonder if it is all about the vac pressure, or if there are other reason,
>because I get *better* performance at lower vac, but not *terrible* at
>higher vac. I would say 10-20% inprovement. One thing I have found is that
>sucker gaps don't work well with a smaller PSU, like an OBIT, IC or small
>NST. I get better results from a multi style gap at those power levels. 
>What
>PSU are you using?
>
>You can see my sucker gap at: 
>http://madlabs.info/index.php?x=spark_gaps.jsp
>
>HTH,
>
>Jonathan Peakall
>
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>Subject: Re: Vacuum/blast gap


Im using 1800VA so its not a little coil.  I was getting about 5 footers to 
the ground, and was only getting like 3.5' with the vac gap.  Big 
difference.

Steve Ward

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