New trigged gap?

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Hm, what about this for a trigged gap design.
3 electrodes aligned, like this . . .
say 10kv breakdown beween them
you set your caps max voltage to say 15kv
then you charge the middle electrode to 7kv though a small hv source (tv 
flyback or something)
When you want to set off the gap
you discharge the middle electrode
making the voltages
15kv, 0kv, 0kv
Now, the first part of the gap arcs over and you get say 1kv drop (I know 
its usally alot less but just for a random oversized number out of the hat 
lets say 1kv) and very very small middle terminal capasatance, charges the 
middle term to 14kv, so you get 15kv, 14kv, 0kv, and then the last part of 
the gap breaks down
Of course, you could do this the other way around.
something like
.   . . electrodes
the far away one is at say 15kv
theres about say 17kv beween the 1st and 2nd electrode breakdown
and 5kv from 2nd to 3rd
normaly the middle one sits at 0v along with 3rd electrode
so 15kv from 1st to 2nd, when you wanna trigger, you give electrode 2 a 
pulse of say -4kv, making 19kv across from 1 to 2, and -4kv from 2 to 3
1 arcs to 2, makes 2 at near 15k, and that breaks down the 5kv gap from 2 to 3
Or is this just all old news?