Re: OLTC Questions

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <FutureT-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 1/20/03 12:40:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

Steve,

I think that anything over about 600 bps doesn't add very much to the
spark length.  I find the best spark growth "efficiency" at around
100 to 200 bps.  Some have found good growth at 300 bps or so.
In any case, I suspect that large bang, low bps gives longer sparks
than small bang, high bps for for a given input power.  This is
for regular spark gap coils, but I suspect that OLTC's, SSTC's, etc
will behave the same way.  If you keep the bang size the same, but
increase the bps, then the spark length will most likely continue to
increase up to some point, but the input power will increase too of
course.

John


>Can anyone comment on whether increasing the BPS would impact
>the spark length even if the power level stays the same? I.e. do a few
>large bangs give a bigger spark than many little ones?
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>Your thoughts much appreciated
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>Steve C.
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