Re: John Freau's SRSG Dwell Controller

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Ed,

After my real life testing last night, it appears R3 is not needed.  I
trust you have seen my later post last night on all this.

Cheers,

	Terry


At 11:07 AM 12/20/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/18/00 6:19:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
>tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
><< 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have been studying John Freau's remote gap phase controller at:
> 
> http://hometown.aol-dot-com/futuret/page3.html
> 
> This wonderful Idea is full of great promise and I have been running some
> computer models today.  The MicroSim model is at:
> 
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/srsgVI.sch
> 
> A GIF diagram is at:
> 
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/TeslaCoils/Misc/srsgVI.gif
>  >>
>- big snip -
>
>Terry,
>
>I am very interested in your analysis on this circuit.  I am just about ready 
>to try it with my 3.0" coil and new sync rotary gap - using a 1/3 H.P. motor. 
> What is the purpose of R3 - is it just to draw some steady current through 
>the variac?  It looks like it needs to be about 300 watts.
>
>Ed Sonderman
>