Original poster: BunnyKiller <bunnikillr@xxxxxxx> Okay Chip...I took a good look at your schematics for this version and found everything to be in order ( as far as the welder primary winding being less in winds as compared to the secondary winding that can be dismissed at least you have the correct idea that you are using the primary side of the welder as ballast input)
as far as having the cap in series with the coil primary and the rotary spark gap in paralell with the coil primary ( in your present schematics) I prefer to run mine in the opposite configuration.... my rotory spark gap is in series with the coil primary and the cap is in paralell with the coil primary ( and transformer outputs) my safety gap is also in paralell with the cap and transformer
this way the cap charges direct and not thru the coil primary and any overvoltage gets dumped into the safety gap ( but when it does its loud) ...
Scot D Tesla list wrote:
Original poster: "Chip Ford" <chipford@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Here is my 7th. revision to the schematic with the appropriate changes made to the choke setup...Thanks again to everyone..Chip...Ühttp://hot-streamer.com/temp/Parallized6.JPG