Re: SIZE of RF chokes?

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Original poster: Steve Conner <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 12:35 26/11/05 -0700, you wrote:
> Original poster: "JT Bowles" <jasotb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> So you are saying it will randomly and sparratically fire faster, 
> then slower, then faster....and so on?
> Not good for my coil.

Static spark gaps _always_ work like this. They have a kind of 
chaotic behaviour. If you want the coil to run smoothly with exactly 
120 equal-sized discharges per second then you need a synchronous 
rotary spark gap. There is a huge amount of information on the net 
and in the Pupman archives about how to make and adjust a SRSG.

They do seem to give better performance, but that is probably just 
because the SRSG lets you use a larger tank capacitor than any other 
kind of gap, while still charging it to a high voltage.

Steve Conner
http://www.scopeboy.com/