Re: ASRSG Smaller Sparks????

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Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com> 

Hi Randy,

Sounds like the srsg is hunting. It's "not" in sync so your firing at 
various places along the AC line and probably very inconsistently. It's 
probably your disc assy is just too much for the HP of the motor. Have you 
tried the disc without the electrodes to see if it locks in sync? I would 
probably suggest troubleshooting the srsg problem, otherwise I think you 
will be better off with the sucker gap.

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Randy & Lori" <rburney6-at-comcast-dot-net>
>My name is Randy.  I'm in Savannah GA.  I have been reading the list "in
>the shadows" for a good while now, and currently am running a 6.25"
>coil.  I have moved up from the 4" coil; I've been through the surplus
>mil caps to the Geek Group's; I've modified a 15/30, and I've run a
>center tapped set of big MOTs W/level shifter.  I've been from the
>static gap to a nice sucker gap, and I'm trying an ASRSG now but I'm
>having problems with it.
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>I used my bench grinder (use what you got) and attempted to modify it
>for SRSG operation.  Just by listening to it, I knew it wasn't right.
>It would do this wa wa sound like it was unable to lock in.  I figured I
>would just set it up as an ASRSG.  I figure it runs so close to 3600
>RPM, I would just use that number for my math. I put 4 electrodes on the
>disk (240 BPS?), and then I added another set of stationary electrodes
>offset to now give me 480 BPS.  The thing seems to work fine except that
>my sparks are less than 2' now.  When the safety gap goes off I get some
>real nice sparks, and the ammeter hardly moves??  It would seem that I'm
>not getting a full discharge (except when the SG goes off).  I have
>tried cutting my tank cap in half (did help a little).  The MOTs (with
>100 ohms on each leg) and the modified 15K NST act about the same.  The
>Tank cap is now .015uf, my disk is 9" across and the electrodes are
>7.75" across.  Is it possible that my caps are not fully discharging
>with this ASRSG?  Do I have to go back to my sucker gap to get back my
>big sparks?  Thanks in advance for your help, and a bigger thanks for
>all of the posted stuff on this list and your personal web sites!!
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>Randy
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