magnetic quenching efficiency

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Original poster: "Laurence Davis by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <meknar-at-hotmail-dot-com>

A friend interested in my tesla coils asked why I don't try to design
a magnetically quenched gap.  I mentioned tesla did this, but I hadn't
heard of many in the tcml that do or have done this.  Another suggestion
was instead of using large rare earth magnets, why not use electromagnets.

I would guess magnetically quenched gaps are either not as efficient
as a (well designed) srsg or too much work to implement or design one.

with regard to using electromagnets, i would say that the rare earth magnets
have a very high output/field density that would be difficult to reproduce
without superconductors.

hmmm, I sense a bit of math could likely help solve this question.

anyone here have any experience with this?

larry.