Re: Capacitor in series or parallel?

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 9/7/05 11:33:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
The usual answer to this is that you connect the power
supply across the spark gap, in order to minimize the
amount of RF fed back into the transformer. This is a
moot point though: spark gaps generate RF too.

Steve Conner

Hi Steve,

I must disagree; it is not a moot point. the RF voltage seen by the 
power transformer is several orders of magnitude less with the gap 
across the transformer. With transformer across the gap, the 
transformer sees only the RF voltage drop across the gap WHILE the 
gap is firing, essentially a few hundred volts instead of ~20+ KV. 
IMHO, a mouse and a moose are both mammals but not equivalent if 
they're stepping on you, and it is a disservice to a newbie to 
intimate that they are quantitatively similar..

Matt D.