Re: ahhh.. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!

["acmnovak" <acmnovak-at-msn-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Mike-
Arc length triples along any dielectric surface for any given voltage. When
you make strings of caps, makes sure they are entirly linear. Just one
string of 13 or whatever. Your gap is set about right, you just need to
reconfig your capacitor.
BTW- Dan Kunkel reported great success with these same caps. He told me his
arc length doubled from saltwater caps. and guess what? he's also using a
9/60
Cheers,
-Michael


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Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: ahhh.. HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!


> Original poster: "Mike Waddick" <Mike_W_-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> ok all,
>
> i wrote the post about "its alive...or not". and after much work i am
still
> getting bright arcs betweeen the mmc or i think inbetween. i cant even see
> any carbon tracks or anything. So i cant figure out where it is jumping.
> and terry i did set the gap down so that it fired at 90 volts with no
caps.
> then when i hooked it up it was firing at around 28 volts i think. and
when
> it hit 30 those loud notice able acrs would jump. i cant really see where
> but they are on one of the strings on the mmc. i think there might be
> something major wrong with this one string because it is the only one
doing
> this. any way of testing that it is still good? also any suggestions on
> what exactly is the problem. i havent ever heard of this happening befor
or
> maybe it happens alot ad people just dont speak of it.
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