RE: Chokes vs Safety Gaps

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Original poster: "Steve Conner" <steve.conner-at-optosci-dot-com> 

Terry Fritz has already done what seem to me the definitive experiments on
this. He pinged a depotted NST with spark-gap pulse waveforms and examined
the voltage distribution across the windings. He tried this with various
chokes and resistors in series with the NST, and found (IIRC) that chokes
were worse than useless. He wrote a couple of papers that you can find on
hot-streamer-dot-com.

The "Terry Filter" is the result of these experiments.

Steve C.

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/NSTWindingStress/NSTWindingStress.html

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/rcfilter/rcfilter.html

http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/MyPapers/rlcfilter/rlcfilter.html