Hello People While everyone is on this subject.How does one determine the number of gaps and spacing between each segment in a cylindrical R.Q.S.G? It seems like from what I read that if you don't have enough gaps that's bad and if you have too many that's also bad. Is there anyway to determine what is actually needed? Is it determined by your input voltage or you cap or a combination
of both? Thanks for your time. Vinnie----- Original Message ----- From: <resonance@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [TCML] Spark gap
Mistakes many experimenters make with rotaries is: (1) electrodes too small (they get red hot and destroy quenching) (2) poor heat sink material and not enough of it to hold and heatsink the stationary electrodes. I use 1 x 1 x 1 inch brass holders on all small coils and 2x2x2 inch brass holders on all coils above 4.5 kVA. I also use 1/2 inch dia brass rod for the heatsink on the small coils and always 1 inch dia brass rod with matching 1" dia electrodes on the big rotaries. If you fail to properly quench your performance always suffers. To much energy gets back into the pri and then can't get back into the sec for efficient ringdown. Dr. ResonanceI would love to see the data which supports that statement. I've built poor and good rotary's, poor and good static gaps. Gaps are not so easy to quantify and highly "power" related. Bart Henry Hallam wrote:Among other things, the propeller gap is better at quenching (shutting off the spark), especially at high power. Henry Rich Schmuke wrote:I am going to ask a simple question but please give a simple answer. I am not a EE just a builder. I was asking about a rotor gap the other day and it was suggested I try a propeller gap for my 200ma coil. Well I have a motor from a 8" hard drive now and am going to build a mount as soon as it is warm enough to get to my shed. My question is why is a propeller at 3600 RPM better than a RQ copper tube gap? 60 cycle RQ vs a 3600RPM it's the same break rate I think. Rich _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla_______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/teslaDr. Resonance _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxhttp://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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