Hey Phillip...your gap is quenching if the coil was working... remember, a coil charges the cap at about 120 times per second and the coil resonates in the kilo or mega Hertz range ( depending on coil size). In most cases, the human eye cannot tell if something is flashing on and off at a rate above 60+ Hz. As far as running a gap on an NST with no coil involved ( basically a mini Jacobs ladder), the arc is being formed at ( once again) 120 times per second. Thats 60 on the up side and 60 on the down side of the sine wave of the AC in 1 second. I guess a good analogy is your computer screen, it refreshes itself 60+ times a second but you see no or very little flicker going on...
Scot D Phillip Slawinski wrote:
I just hooked up my new NST to my sucker gap to test gap width. A very odd thing happened. It had what appeared to be a power arc inside despite the vacuum motor running. There was a 2mm thick plasma rod in the very middle of the electrodes that extended down the tube. With every other transformer I have a ring of blue sparks forms around the outside. Only a half circle of blue sparks formed this time, in addition to the plasma in the middle of the gap. Could this be a sign that my sucker gap ... sucks? Perhaps it's time to upgrade to a rotary? If it can't even quench the NST without a cap there's no way it can quench it with one, right? Has anyone else seen this before? _______________________________________________ Tesla mailing list Tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.pupman.com/mailman/listinfo/tesla
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