Re: Outside testing

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Subject: Re: Outside testing
From: "SROYS" <SROYS-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:49:58 EDT
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> All of a sudden a massive bolt broke out from the
> center of the secondary to the primary strike shield.  I turned the 
> power off and refired it.  It is difficult to get it to run without breakouts 
> happening from the coil itself.  I even had the safety gap fire once.
> 
> What is happening here?  Too much power?

I don't know if it's the same thing that I experienced at my much lower 
1kVA level, but I was having the same sort of problem (discharges from 
the middle of the secondary) until I raised my secondary up to loosen 
the coupling.  When I did that, the spark-over stopped and I actually 
gained two inches or so of spark length.


Steven Roys (sroys-at-radiology.ab.umd.edu)