I've seen those Richard Quick and it would be nice to be able to hide the
arc, especially when showing to kids who will surely not listen when you
tell not to look at the Bright light. How do you manage to hold the pipes
while drilling and screwing? Do you set the gap with a credit card?
john cooper
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Danniken
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 4:33 PM
To: Tesla Coil Mailing List
Subject: Re: [TCML] Air compressor quenching
On 11/07/2014 11:04 AM, John Cooper wrote:
Ok so quenching my gap did bring noticeable improvement. I had some
120v fans but there big computer case style fans that dont really
concentrate air flow. And I dont wanna listen to a vacuum cleaner so
sucker fan out of the question. I have a blow gun rigged up now but
I'm gonna pipe the air from a quick disconnect to the gap. Think I
can regulate it down to say 30-50psi to make my 20 gallon tank last
for a good run. Anyone already done this? Tips tricks what to watch
for etc would be apreciated.
Yes, I did this at one point when I was using a static gap (brass acorn
nuts mounted on 1/4" brass screws). It made a big improvement over not
having it there, so I incorporated a solenoid valve on my control panel
that I could activate with a switch.
Eventually I went with a Richard Quick style gap (parallel copper pipes)
with a small blower, which gave the best performance of any of my static
gap experiments.
Jon
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