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From: Craig Shields <cshields@tyrell.net>
Subject: phase
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>> My question is: Does anyone know if variacs will "limit" the current
that you can draw through them?

From what I have heard/read, they don't.  You just turn up the variac,
and it raises the input voltage to the transformers.  I have never used
a variac and I could be wrong.   What size are the neon transformers?
And, this could be important, are all your transformers in phase with
one another?

>>~My spark gap is a series gap made of 8 3" pieces of 1" copper pipe
>>~There is 0.018" between each piece.

That's the same type I am planning to build.  How did you gauge the
spacing between the pipes?  Is your gap snapping and sparking well or
does it buzz?

T>>~Here's another general toss up question:
T>>~If your secondary shorts out between two windings (as evidenced by arcing
T>>~between two windings) is the tuning kaput?

From what I have taken in so far, it's either too tightly coupled with
the primary, or there is some type of dead short, like moisture or
something.

Craig Shields cshields@tyrell.net
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