Re: Limiting Safety Gap Current

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• Subject: Re: Limiting Safety Gap Current
• From: "Barton B. Anderson" <mopar-at-uswest-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 12:46:44 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Mark,

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Mark S Graalman <teslac-at-juno-dot-com>
>
>   I made comments on this a number of months ago. A
> safety gap across the primary gap is a BIG MISTAKE
> it WILL cause destruction of the cap sooner or later.
>  A gap acrossed the cap sets up a very high frequency
> high current circuit that is coupled to NOTHING and a
> huge standing wave is set up. A inductive loading of the
> circuit will simply lower the frequency of the circuit and
> slightly lower the peak current, the energy will not be
> dissipated in the reactance of the inductors but returned to
> the cap. Some may disagree, but I've killed a lot of caps this
> way, it is NOT the way to do it.
>
> Mark  Graalman

What is the way to do it?

Bart

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