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Re: Duty Cycle



Original poster: "Brian by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <ka1bbga-at-webryders-dot-net>

Hi, i have run my #3 tcoil for almost 30 minutes without any damage. power
was 525 watts from a 9kv 60ma. using conservative mmc/panasonic caps. RQ
style gap. no problems, no heating. cul brian f.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Duty Cycle


> Original poster: "G by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<bog-at-cinci.rr-dot-com>
>
> Ted, I ran my first coil (6", 15/60) for at least 45 continuous
> minutes once I had it tuned. But, by that time, the arcs seemed less
> impressive, and I started to open up the gaps. We all know where
> things go from there... :) Racing arcs at first, then my rolled caps
> died. I realized later what I had been doing wrong: the gaps were so
> wide they sometimes didn't fire for a second or two...
> Gregory
>
> >Just an informal survey if you all don't mind.
> >
> >My classical coil (sorry toobers) ran about 10 to 15 seconds ON and about
30
> >seconds OFF for an average evening time of 5 hours on Fridays, Saturdays
and
> >Sundays this past October.
> >That is a total ON time of up to 1 hour, 40 min. per evening (if my math
is
> >right and it might not be).
> >
> >That got me wondering.
> >What has the list's experience been with max ON time of anyone's coil?
> >In other words, how long has anyone left their coil on before they felt
it
> >was "too long" and had everything go OK?
> >
> >Curious
> >
> >
> >Ted
>
>
>
>