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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: Triggered Gap
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:49:49 -0600
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From: Atle Jorstad [SMTP:anjorsta@online.no]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 1998 10:56 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Triggered Gap
At 11:13 PM 1/29/98 -0600, you wrote:
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>From: Robert Davis [SMTP:RE.Davis@btinternet.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 29, 1998 1:54 PM
>To: 'tesla@pupman.com'
>Subject: Triggered Gap
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>Dear All,
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>Has anyone used triggered gaps to fire their coils?
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>I am building a small Oudin coil driver and was thinking about trying a
>triggered gap, input voltage is low at 200-600 VDC so the only other option
>is a Triac or SCR, I will try a three terminal gap with the center
>electrode used as the trigger, EHT pulse from an 8kV xenon flash Tx. The
>coil wattage is low at < 100W.
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>I think a triggered gap may quench better as the gap spacing is much larger
>than normal for the high current path. I assume the gap spacing is mainly
>dependant on the triggering voltage?
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Why not use a SCR directly? I believe that SCRs have longer lifetimes than
gaps, and switch better.
Atle Jorstad