[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: No chokes, and my gaps (was: Ferrite chokes & sat...)




From: 	Adam[SMTP:absmith-at-tiac-dot-net]
Sent: 	Thursday, November 27, 1997 1:03 AM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: No chokes, and my gaps (was: Ferrite chokes & sat...)


>That sounds like an awful lot of trouble. You can heavily gap a core 
>but then you are approaching air permeability. My next chokes are 
>going to be air cored. I am going to wind them on old solder bobbins. 
>I will put de-Q'ing resistors externally and make sure the heating in 
>the chokes themselves is kept to a minimum. But then again, I am just 
>about moving away from chokes altogether, at least for neons.

Moving away from chokes on the neons, eh, just bypass caps then?  This 
sounds good, but if I removed the chokes from my current system, it would 
put my main gap and safety gap in parallel.  As my safety gap has very 
still and static air between the electrodes, and I might expect that 
removing the chokes would cause my safety gap to become ionized and more 
or less short out my main gap.  BTW, where should my safety gap be set at 
for a 9kV supply? Right now it totals 0.18" center tapped, and my main 
gap is 0.15".

-Adam


--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adam Smith
absmith-at-tiac-dot-net
Epoch, Inc. Digital Music Project

www.tiac-dot-net/users/absmith/                 MP3 Demo Tracks Now Available!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------