RE: Chokes vs Safety Gaps

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: Brett Miller <brmtesla2-at-yahoo-dot-com> 

Absolutely.  Unless someone can come up with
*compelling* evidence to the contrary, using rigorous
standards of measurement and double blind testing and
peer review, then I think any up to date coiler should
consider the "Chokes vs Safety Gaps" discussion a moot
point.

You can't really argue with a reproducable
measurement.  At first I laughed at some of these
posts.  Now I just delete them.

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

-Brett



--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > 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
 >
 >


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