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Re: Safety gap, was capacitor help



Original poster: Esondrmn@xxxxxxx
Malcolm,

The main gap is usually physically located near the primary and primary capacitor, in order to keep the tank circuit connections as short as possible. The transformer is usually located from a foot or two to several feet away. Often, the designer has connected resistors or other protection devices between the tank circuit and the transformer. The safety gap is normally very near the transformer and connected right across the high voltage terminals - before those connections go any where else.

Ed Sonderman

In a message dated 12/16/2005 6:30:14 PM Pacific Standard Time, tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
I still don't understand.  How does the safety gap in parallel with the
regular spark gap help any unless it's connected to something else as well?