Re: NST failures

["Malcolm Watts" <M.J.Watts-at-massey.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

On 5 Aug 00, at 10:59, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: Irrelative-at-aol-dot-com 
> 
> With all of this talk about length of wire, I'd like to wonder:  To raise
the 
> voltage to any level, there has to be a fairly large number of turns.  
> Wouldn't the turns in the secondary be like having longer HV leads?  If so, 
> then length wouldn't matter to any practical degree, except maybe for 
> capacitence.  Just a thought - tell me if I'm right.

The gap itself produces step functions which can excite 
resonances in any resonant structure (including leads with 
stray L and C) at frequencies well above the coil fundamental. 

Regards,
Malcolm