[TCML] Primary to Strikerail arc.

[Scott Bogard]

Vinnie,
     The same thing happened to me a while back, it never seemed to hurt 
anything.  What I think is going on is that your primary is developing a 
huge voltage at the very end past the tap (like an autotransformer) and 
is arcing to the strike rail as it is grounded.  It probably wasts some 
small amount of power, I would simply move the rail up a little higher 
to avoid this (I ended up getting rid of the strike rail all together 
but that is a "whole nuther' ball of wax".)

Scott Bogard.

Vince D'Amore wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
>  Yesterday evening I fired up my coil and after about 20 seconds of running I notice a single arc from my primary to strike rail. I did not notice my safety gap fire. My safety is set to approximately 1/4 inch. The  distance from my strike rail to primary is about 2 inches. The coil continued to perform very well but should I be concerned about this arc?
>
> Vinnie
>
> Vinnie
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