RE: Quench gap?

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

When a Tesla Coil gap fires, it creates a cloud of ions which
'encourage' the spark to keep striking. This would drain more power from
the capacitors and dampen the coil output.

By using one of several means, the spark is extinguished or 'quenched'
as soon as possible so the maximum energy goes into the coil output.

Today, people either use a rotary gap or forced air.
Older designs also used axially aligned magnets but air or rotary is the
best way to go.

Dave

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 8:10 PM
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> Subject: Quench gap?
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> Original poster: "R. Amaya" <dimon20042004@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Hi all,
> I remember reading somewhere about some style of a spark gap I have
> never heard of called a "quench gap". What exactly is it and has
> anyone ever used one of these?
> Thanks in advance.
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>     Robert
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