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wrote ... ...I come here to learn, not waste time, solicit opinions or even as a social outlet...
Shall I now brand you an undeserving parasite?
wrote ... ...Arc gaps aren't simple R's as covered by Kirchoff...
Dean, I would have thought I made that explicitly clear by explicitly describing an arc in the time domain.
wrote ... ...If you don't know the formula, who or where it might have been codified, just say so...
Do you expect every member on the forum to personally come to YOUR thread and reply: "I don't know."? People post here, in your thread, specifically to share with you, relevant fragments from knowledge they do know.
You seem to fail to understand that peoples' replies encompass their efforts to help you! But you go out of your way to anklebite most members who post, even when they offer (in my case, and in your words) "useful, basic" information.
wrote ...
And doing it with R is the dumbest thing an EE might consider; more often done with transformers/baluns, only a newbie... eh?
Dean, I'm not an electrical engineer, so I guess I will not qualify as a newbie either. I did not discuss or advocate doing X, Y, or Z with R, but regardless, such attacks on my (and others') credibility are why I now no longer feel inclined to (dare) reply to your threads in the future, for the sake of my sanity and your sanctity. I had supposed that by reading my last post you may realise your intimidating manner, but evidently you did not. I encourage other posters also not to risk their sanity.
Because you keep snapping at many of the qualified-and-experienced and unqualified-and-experienced members here, it does not surprise me your threads end up all noise and no signal.
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thrival wrote ...
One person with reasonable answer vs. creating long threads, could suffice.
Just be grate full for the information you get from the forum. This is just where people dump whatever they know. If this doesn't suffice you can always buy the knowledge from commercial companies.
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Thrival, your original question has been answered multiple times by multiple people. The answers were given in the form of equations, graphs, and known facts by Marko, Steve Connor, and ..., and in REAL-WORLD measurements by Steve Ward.
If you choose not to accept those answers, that's your problem. But DON'T expect to last very long here by continually insulting members.
Vdrop across diode will be given by the manufacturer. Yes, lower voltage diodes have less drop. If you choose to use a low voltage diode for whatever reason, you can assume no back EMF all you want, but it will still be there. If you decide to use an HV diode, Vdrop will be negligible compared to the kilovolts across it (plus you save time+diodes).
Vdrop across the gap has been answered enough times already.
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Question re: Calculating V drop across spark gaps, components
