Re: air blast gap

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

Perhaps you could direct a portion of the airflow away from the gap - maybe 
through a tee in the line and put some type of adjustable restriction to 
meter the airflow to the gap.  Just a thought. 
Mike 

>
> I've been trying different variations of air blast gaps on my coil recently, 
> and I've had a small problem. It seems that the faster the air is blasted 
> into the gap, the more unreliable the gap is. After a few seconds of run 
> time 
> the gap will abruptly stop firing and I have to flip the power off and back 
> on again to get it to start firing. Sometimes it wont stop firing at all, 
> and 
> sometimes is does it quite often. Is there any way to remedy this? 
>                                        Justin