Re: Capacitor Help

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 12/20/05 2:16:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Actually after playing with it a while it seemed the regular spark gap was
making about the same size sparks but the safety gap kept going off every
other second or so.  I'll try to get things dialed in today.  I did make a
new spark gap last night.  It's a piece of 4" PVC with about 9 or 10 pieces
of copper tube super glued around in there.  I spaced them with pennys.
Each tube is 1 1/2" long.  I'll try that out today too.

Thanks
Malcolm - KC



Hi Malcolm,

    Most of the multigaps I've seen used spacing of a credit card. 
You will want the SUM of all your gaps to be less than 1/2".

Matt D.