Re: Vacuum/blast gap

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Original poster: "J. B. Weazle McCreath by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <weazle-at-hurontel.on.ca>


At 12:47 PM 15/09/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Steven Ward by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I recently attempted to reproduce Gary Lau's sucker gap.  I bought the same 
>vacuum motor.  My meter claims 3A for the motor, yet Gary claims about 
>10A?!?!  Thats not what im getting at.  My problem is that this gaps stinks! 
>

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>All opinions are wanted.  Thanks,
>
>Steve Ward.
>


Hello Steve, Coilers,

Did you build the gap just like Gary's?  Does the air exit via the
two electrodes from the gap chamber?  I have a variation of his
design on my pig powered coil and it's working great for me, so
I can only assume that you must have made a major change from 
Gary's design.  Check out my web site for a pix of my gap.

73, Weazle, VE3EAR/VE3WZL
G-1#1214

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