Re: [TCML] Hazards of Asynchronious arc gaps?

["Harold Weiss" <hweiss@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Harvey,

With NST drive, you want to be running with a syncronous gap.  Otherwise you 
may kill the NST by overvolting when the gap fails to fire on the peak, and 
the voltage rings up extremely high.  That's probably what's happening to 
the caps as well.  I have seen it go 7X on one coil, but generally, it's 
between 2-4X for most coils.

David Weiss


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