Re: The OLTC II lives!

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Original poster: "Steven Ward" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

Ken,

You mentioned the picture of your EM in the temp folder, but i cannot find 
the picture (after searching for a long time!).  Does anyone know of the 
name of Kens SSTC picture?  I would really like to see :-D

And of course, excellent work by Mr. Conner ;)

Steve


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>Subject: Re: The OLTC II lives!
>Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:53:24 -0700
>
>Original poster: "K. C. Herrick" <kchdlh-at-juno-dot-com>
>
>Admirable work, Steve!  And aren't you lucky to have a cooperative EE
>department nearby.  Mine is nearby all right (U.C. Berkeley) but without
>doubt that's about all--for this graduate of half a century ago.
>
>I note that you employ a "breakout" point.  What effect do you get
>without that?  I'd found, with my sstc when it was working, that I would
>get very much more sparking when the sparks issued directly from the 6" x
>24" smooth toroid rather than from a point (you may recall having seen a
>photo on hot-streamer/temp).
>
>No doubt that difference has much to do with the differing modes of
>operation:  In mine, I had to build up the secondary voltage over 20-30
>cycles before breakout whereas with yours, I'm sure most all of the power
>into the secondary is crammed into the first few cycles.
>
>I wonder if this difference would tend to support my conjecture that the
>relatively rapid rate of rise in a "spark-gap" type of coil enables a
>higher voltage to appear at the top electrode than would otherwise be the
>case.  That would be due to the physical inertia of air molecules in
>"getting out of the way" of the path of the spark, thus delaying the
>gross reduction in secondary Q resultant from the spark.
>
>Can any pundits (in addition to yourself!) shed light on this?
>
>Ken Herrick
>