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Subject: Safety gap setting
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 08:02:15 -0500
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From: James Burgess [SMTP:bouncer@iquest.net]
Sent: Friday, April 10, 1998 10:17 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Safety gap setting
I have just gotten my new cap, it is a Maxwell
.05mfd 75kv and works great. My question is, at what
distance
should the safety be set for this cap. I'm running a 14.4kv
pig with the gap set at .625, at lower power this gap is ok,
but as I get to half power the gap starts to fire.
A chart I have says 15mm=39.3kv {almost .625}
this is over half the rating of my cap, since the cap should
be de-rated by half for A/C. I don't want to blow this cap
{too much money} but I don't want to cut power If I don't
have to.
Thanks
J.R. Burgess