Re: New solid state pictures

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: New solid state pictures
From: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:30:02 -0600
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

In a message dated 5/16/00 10:26:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:

> Since I was using a level shifted supply, I believe the spike in plate
>  voltage is responsible for the nice pointy sparks, but am not sure, as one
>  can get fuzzy sparks also. 

David,

I did a comparison of a level shifted supply, and a regular type supply, 
and for the same spark length, the sparks looked the same as far
as I could tell.  I think that branching is affected by a number of
things, such as tuning, grid feedback characteristics, etc.  My small
resonator tends to always give straight sparks, and the large resonator
always gives fuzzy sparks.

Cheers,
John Freau

>  
>  Regards,
>  
>  David Trimmell