Re: What's truly better?

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


I've seen in both ways with excellent results.  I think most would put the
spark gap in parallel with the transformer output but some put the spark gap
in series with the output.  I think
Terry Blake does it this way.

The Captain




 > I've been reviewing a lot of
 > schematics, and archived messages
 > the last few days, and so far there seems
 > to be a 50/50 split on what the best
 > configuration for a spark-gap style TC
 > is... capacitor in series with primary,
 > or spark gap in series with primary? Both
 > seem to be equally as popular.  However,
 > being in a "wanna do it up right" mode, it
 > would truly behoove me (plus any newbies
 > we have lurking) to come up with a final
 > "this is it for now and all time" decision
 > as to which is better....so which is it?
 >
 > ---
 > C.L. Mayeux
 > Owner, MSB Data Systems
 > http://www.msbdatasystems.tk
 >
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