On 12/27/2013 11:48 AM, Reverend Fuzzy wrote:
Might work, but if you were to use them to interrupt the arc itself, I was told that it would just be a sireen.As I was waiting for the end of this morning's, eh, constitutional, I was thinking... I have a bunch of old CD's laying around... if I were to sand the silver coating off, and glue 3 or 4 of them together, (properly centered of course), would it be suitable as the rotor in a rotary spark gap for a low-power SG coil ??? Has anyone actually tried this? Just a thought, so no biggie if it's goofy.
On another note, I once considered a stack of CDs as a capacitor, but never figured out a way to make the connections.
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