Marko's spark gap coil
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Dr. Dark Current
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Mon Sept 01 2008, 10:36AM
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Registered Member #152
Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 03:36PM
Location: Czech Rep.
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What is the problem of resonant cap value, when 1) safety gap will take care of any problems 2) the voltage will be limited by the main gap anyway?
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Marko
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Mon Sept 01 2008, 11:07AM
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Registered Member #89
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
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I don't know. I feel that a cap too close resonant value won't store enough energy. Even at peak transformer voltage (18kV) a 10nF cap would only store 3.24 joules which would equal only 324 watts of power throughput which looks low for 500VA transformer bank.
From other side my power factor might just be so low anyway that I won't have much more real power available anyway. With power factor of 0.7 my available power would be less than 350W.
Marko
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