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Re: [TCML] Breakout Point



Phillip,
From my personal experience, it seems that a
breakout point does seem to shorten the maxi-
mum possible spark length, due to the charge
of the topload being "drained" before it has a chance to fully build up and self start the cas- cading breakdown. Of course the amount of available power, primary capacitor size, break rate, ect. also play a big part in this. I've found that a breakout point that just barely breaks the
surface of the torid is better at just initating break-
out without neccessarily excessively draining the topload charge than one that really sticks way out
from the topload surface. Of course the obvious
advantage of a breakout point is that you can some-
what "aim" the streamers instead of them hitting
everything randomly within the striking range radius of the operating coil.

David Rieben


----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:30 PM
Subject: [TCML] Breakout Point


Does having a breakout point reduce your maximum streamer length?  I
increased the size of my second toroid today and I'm getting 56" ground
strikes, but I'm wondering if having a breakout point limits my streamer
length any.
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