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Re: Craig's SGTC (plus SSTC)

Original poster: "Craig Dunn" <craig_d73@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone.

your strike rail acts as a shortened turn. Just introduce a gap of about an inch

Yes, I suppose it does. I hadn't thought of that to be honest. Well spotted :). I was planning on trying out different tuning setups (primary taps) tomorrow, so hopefully with a gap in the strike ring I'll see further improvements.



From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Craig's SGTC (plus SSTC)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:40:35 -0600

Original poster: Rob Maas <robm@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Craig,

Very nice setup, but...: your strike rail acts as a shortened turn. Just introduce
a gap of about an inch. The performance MUST improve by that.

best regards,  Rob

Original poster: "Craig Dunn" <craig_d73@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi,

I've just started to get decent streamers from my first SGTC so I thought I would post the results. The setup is:

* 4 MOT Stack Power Supply (no oil)
* Inductive Ballast (limits current draw to 10A).
* 80nF MMC (was originally beer bottles).
* Asynchronous Rotary Spark Gap
* 110mm Diameter Secondary (1000 turns 0.55mm wire).



P.S. If that 1.5 kV rating of your caps is for *DC*, rather than *AC*, you
    need a (carefully-tuned) safety gap across your MMC (but perhaps you
    have that already)