I would have gone along With Gary. Only now there are more powerful
magnets. But everyone is moving along to solid state coils now.
Unfortunately.Very easy to set up spark gap type coils, even one with a
rotary gap. I have never made a gap with the new extremely strong magnets.
a small coil might do well but there is not much to look at Old or New. Hey
Gary saw that movie with the unobtainium I always loved upsidaisium.
On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 8:53 AM Gary Lau <glau1024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have seen many posts mentioning magnetic quenching, and I have NEVER
> heard of it actually used in a Tesla coil. It probably requires the gap
> electrodes to be made of unobtainium. The physics is sound but
> implementation is lacking.
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:00 PM jhowson4 <jhowson4@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > It involves the motion of charge carriers thru a magnetic field. Set it
> up
> > so the current path and field are perpendicular and the field pulls the
> > charge carriers off to the side disrupting the current path and thus
> > quenching the gap more readily than without a field. You can look up the
> > right hand rule and the motion of charged particles in magnetic fields
> for
> > more info. Basic E&M physics so should be easy to find info. This is
> useful
> > particularly where the tank current is high and thus the arc is hotter
> and
> > self quenching takes longer than you would like. If you get even bigger
> > moving to a rotary gap is better. -Jay
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