RE: Best cap size for a sync gap

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <gary.lau-at-hp-dot-com> 

Yes, the NST did indeed hum.  No problem though, when the secondary is
hooked up and the streamers are flying, no one will ever hear the
humming ;-)

An "SLTR" system - I'll have to enter that into the lexicon of acronyms
or abbreviations or whatever.  It's about time we came up with some new
ones, the solid state guys were pulling ahead with all their new ones.

I'll put it on my to-do list to repeat the experiment at 120VAC, as soon
as I find another round-tuit.  Who knows, I may even get around to
hooking up the secondary and making sparks.

I do have an analog 2KW wattmeter (never used it though).  What was it
you wanted to measure?

Regards, Gary Lau
MA, USA

 >Original poster: Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-twfpowerelectronics-dot-com>
 >
 >The question I would have is did the tranny "hum" loudly indicating
shunt
 >saturation???  If an NST's shunt go into saturation, all bets are off.
In
 >your tests you make have gone into that black area where we know
 >zilch...  But a Saturating NST (SLTR) system should be able to charge
 >pretty big caps as your test suggest!!!!
 >
 >We know that if the shunts go into saturation, very odd and wonderful
 >things can go on.  But we know no details....  Maybe a cheap
kill-a-watt
 >meter on the input would provide more crucial details for those of us
that
 >try to get the computer models to match reality ;-)))
 >
 >I think your shunts are saturating and thus blowing the normal "old"
models
 >out of the water.  But things seem stable an "happy" in your
experiments
 >which suggests that such regions are reasonable to work at!!!  I am
worried
 >that such regions my be very finicky depending on the brand and
 >characteristics of an exact type/brand of NST....
 >
 >Cheers,
 >
 >         Terry



 >Regards, Gary Lau
 >MA, USA