Re: Safety Gap Puzzle

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Greg,

When your safety gap fires, it is about as loud and bright as your main
gap? It certainly looks bright in your picture...

-- Bert --

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Gregory Hunter by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ghunter31014-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I appreciate all the feedback to my question. All of
> the theories you've offed have merit. I need to add
> one detail however. My NST bank is protected with an
> RC network. I'm using a 1200 Ohm wire wound on each
> bushing in series, and a 1000pF disk cap from each
> bushing to ground. The filter stands between the tank
> circuit and the safety gaps. Whatever the firing of
> the safety gaps is doing, it's doing it through the RC
> filter.
> 
> Feedbacks from the list suggested another theory to
> me. What if the firing of the safety gaps is simply
> sucking all the energy out of the tank circuit,
> thereby causing sharper quenching?  With the tank
> circuit oscillation suddenly muted by virtue of being
> shorted to ground, the secondary would for an instant
> be a truly "free" resonator, no longer encumbered by
> the load imposed on it by the primary circuit.
> 
> Just an idea,
> 
> I need an o'scope!
> 
> Greg
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
> http://personal.mail.yahoo-dot-com/

-- 
Bert Hickman
Stoneridge Engineering
Email:    bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net
Web Site: http://www.teslamania-dot-com