Re: Neighbors and noise

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

In a message dated 8/13/02 2:32:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
writes:

Ed,

I wonder if the use of the quenched gap is also changing (increasing)
the break-rate, and causing the sparks to grow more by rep-rate
than by bang size, and thereby changing (reducing) the
streamer noises?  This may be a stretch... don't know.

John


>
> John
>
>     In the case of my small coil here (30" streamers, 12 kV, 60 ma NST) the
> gap contributes most of the noise.  When I run it using my old Amrad
> quenched gap (which is almost completely silent) the high-frequency
> noise disappears and all I can hear is a loud buzzing and "sizzling"
> sound, which probably doesn't carry very far and isn't particularly
> annoying.  Might not be true for bigger, higher powered or more
> efficient coils. 
>
> Ed
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