Re: Don't want to kill grandpe

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Original poster: "steve" <steve_vance-at-cablelynx-dot-com> 


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Subject: Re: Don't want to kill grandpe


 > Original poster: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
 >
 > "Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <Electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
 >
 > 6' from a 12 60!!??  Are you sure it's a 12 60?
 >
 > Regards - Jim Mitchell"
 >
 > More important, perhaps, is the power input.What is it?   What size
 > primary capacitor are you using?  Near resonant?  How wide is the gap?
 >
 > Ed
 >
 > Hi Ed,
   I am driving it with 140v input from a variac. The cap is an MMC rated
30KV 20nf, almost twice the resonate value. And the gap is a sucker, ran
with a shop-vac, set at about 3/8".

Steve
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