Re: TSG beginner Questions

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Original poster: "Jon Tebbs by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jgtebbs-at-eos-dot-net>

Hi Jim, All,

Tesla list wrote:
> 
> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> The idea is to trigger the spark gap as the primary cap reaches peak
> voltage, but not before.
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> With a triggered gap, same spark same time, every time.
> 

If one has taken an oscilloscope to look at the currently accepted
dimmer based driver, one may note the timing _jitter_ often runs as much
as 2 milliseconds. IMHO, this is too far off the mark of "same time,
every time". Resistive loading does help the jitter situation to some
extent, at the expense of physically large power dissipating resistors.
For QAD, this may be acceptable to many. For aesthetics, the Rotary Rules.

Regards,
-- 
Jon G. Tebbs
<jgtebbs-at-eos-dot-net>