equidrive vs. non-equidrive

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• Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 01:16:10 -0500
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Subject:  equidrive vs. non-equidrive
  Date:   Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:57:00 -0400 (EDT)
  From:   FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
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<  Snip 
> To be on the safe side, you should always remember to discharge the
> primary cap, even in this configuration, since it could retain a charge
> IF you accidently openned up your neon's secondary circuit.
> Performance-wise, it's not clear that the two configurations perform any
> differently. I seem to remember RQ claiming a 10-15% perfomance
> improvement when he went to the "equidrive" configuration. However, I've
> also seen many very high performing systems using the single leg
> capacitor configuration.
  >>

All,

I've done direct comparisons of the equidrive and single leg cap
arrangements
and found absolutely no difference either way.  This was in a small neon
TC
which gave about a 28" spark.  I haven't made comparisons at any other
power
levels.

Towards optimal coiling,

John Freau

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