[TCML] quench times again

["Chris Swinson" <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I was looking at http://www.richieburnett.co.uk/wavefrms.html real 
waveforms...

looking at the discharge waveforms. The spark has arced to ground and killed 
all the voltage even before it gets to the first notch. So if the coil arcs 
on the first ring up cycle then all the RSG times and notches are 
meaningless really ?

It looks like the voltage just ramps up to maximum then arcs to ground, 
that's it..

though looking at the previous waveforms, Richie has the 3rd notch as the 
quench time. There is no spark output so the energy is just trapped until 
(for what ever reason) the spark gap turns off at the 3rd notch.

To me it looks like the notches are not important if the spark has output 
long before anyways....

Cheers,
Chris


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