Dealing with the same issue. I’m new to pupman hope I’m doing this right.
Here is a link to the srgs I designed https://instagram.com/p/BpQ0njvg9QC/ I used to a keyence laser proximity sensor to easy the position of an electrode while in presentation I would like to use a strobe scope to also test it. I heard you could use a old school ballasted fluorescent bulb to get this effect but haven’t tried it.
-Brandon Bebault
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> On Oct 28, 2018, at 10:07 AM, Finn Hammer via Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dan, you can replace the moving electrodes with identical items made from
> iron bar . Do the same with the stationary electrodes, and attach a nice
> neodymium magnet to them at the far end. Next, wind a coil with, say, 50
> turns around these stationary electrode substitutes.
> When the electrodes pass by each other, an increase in magnetic flux will
> be the result, and this fluxvariation will induce a current in the coils,
> which you can monitor with your scope.
> This should make it east to calibrate the gap once and for all.
>
> Hope this helps, Cheers, Finn Hammer
>
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>> Fra: Forrest Mohrman <forrestmohrman@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Til: Tesla Coil Mailing List <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Dato: Søn, 28. okt 2018 13:01
>> Emne: Re: [TCML] SRSG strobe
>>
>> Hi Dan. On vacation at present but I do have a simple to build timing
>> light using a LED. Will send it to you in early November.
>>
>> Bud
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018, 11:55 PM Daniel Kunkel <dankunkel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm getting ready to build my phase controller to control my new
>> SRSG. I
>>> thought I've heard of others use an automotive ignition timing
>> light to
>>> strobe and watch the phasing, but I can't get mine to trigger off a
>> 60Hz
>>> source. Can anyone offer some advice here?
>>> ~Dan
>>> Kansas City area
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