Re: What's truly better?

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


Both ways will work. It has been shown both by theory and experimentally 
that there is significantly less stress on the transformer if the gap is 
across the transformer.  The choice is yours.

Matt D.

In a message dated 3/15/03 9:32:36 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

>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