Re: Weird safety gap behaviour

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Original poster: "Malcolm Watts" <m.j.watts-at-massey.ac.nz> 

On 3 Sep 2004, at 20:57, Tesla list wrote:

 > Original poster: "Gerry Reynolds" <gerryreynolds-at-earthlink-dot-net>
 >
 > Are you saying the equivalent inductance of the NST is decreasing as
 > the amplitude is increasing and thus at low voltage (Cp=2.5 Cres), the
 > Fres is 38 Hz and when Lnst decreases, the Fres moves up closer to
 > 60Hz   If so, is this due to shunts saturating?
 >
 > Gerry R.

Not the shunts, the core itself. The shunts would be most unlikely to
saturate given that they have a significant airgap in series with
them.

Malcolm