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(Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:58:54 -0600
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From: richard hull [SMTP:rhull@richmond.infi.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 5:56 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
At 11:00 AM 2/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From: Scott Stephens [SMTP:stephens@enteract.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 1998 12:31 AM
>To: Tesla List
>Subject: Re: (Bizarre) Strange Spark Phenomena
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>At 02:15 PM 2/3/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>With the extending spark increasing the capacitance of the coil, I would
>expect best performance when the coil is tuned higher than resonance, so the
>coil becomes dynamicaly matched to a spark.
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Scott,
I have found that I always have to dynamically tune to a lower than resonant
frequency to account for operational spark loading via capacitive ionization
paths in order to maximize the spark output from a big coil.
Richard Hull, TCBOR