Re: Capacitor Help (spark gap)

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Original poster: Esondrmn@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 12/21/2005 9:34:19 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Hi Malcolm,
>
>      Most of the multigaps I've seen used spacing of a credit card.
> You will want the SUM of all your gaps to be less than 1/2".
>
> Matt D.

Matt,

Thank you for the suggestion.  The sum of my gaps was probably not more than
1/2" but I didn't measure it exactly.  I like the idea of going to even
smaller gaps and spacing them over even more surface area.  I'm going to do
that.

Thanks
Malcolm - KC

I was thinking the maximum gap spacing for a neon sign transformer 
was in the neighborhood of .25" as opposed to .50".  My gaps are set 
at .030" each and I believe I use 5 or 6 gaps on my small coil using 
a 15 kv 60 ma transformer.

Ed Sonderman