Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com> Hi Luke, At 10:25 AM 1/17/2004, you wrote: >... > >I was wondering what is said to be the value used for the losses in >joules through a spark gap static and rotary. I generally put spark gap losses at 30 to 50% of the input energy. Spark gaps waste an enormous amount of power!! But no "easy" substitute has been found yet. Cheers, Terry