Re: magnetically quenched gap "Director"

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Original poster: "tcbfw by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tcbfw-at-charter-dot-net>

Colin,
Thanks for showing interest, Yes you understood the main point correctly.
There is no spark gap in the running coil pictured, without being cooled the
unit will only run for a few minutes but we have been able to increase that
time significantly by operating the unit in oil (but if I posted a picture
of a coil running and a closed box . . . ;-)

 >
 > hi phil,
 >              i wouldl ike to pretend i totally understand all this but i
 > dont.
 > but what i will say is that is this unit possible to replace a spark gap
and
 > run a table top coil
 > it looks brilliant and lets hope some new coil directions can be found
 > its amazing how such and old device is stil inspiring people to new ideas
 > cheers
 > colin heath

 >  >
 >  > The TCBFW team has been working with magnetically quenched gaps and
 >  > happened across an interesting phenomena which at this time we are
calling
 >  > a "Director" because the group feeling is that this could be a
completely
 >  > new direction for coilers to pursue our preliminary findings can be
found
 >  > at :
 >  >
 > <http://webpages.charter-dot-net/tesla/director.htm>  >
 >  > We hope this will help others research what seems to be an open ended
 > field.