Cap discharges into coil while disconnected from the battery

I doubled the number of impulser chips and synced them so I can have two different duty cycles for charging and discharging the capacitor. The result is less overall current draw but much more powerful output from the neon.

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[7imix]

Agh, three quarters of a tenth of an amp is what I meant. 75 milliamps. Heh.

Inquorate: I think it has to do with how sharply the discharge into the coil is stopped. Tesla invested a lot of time researching quenched spark gaps and most tesla coil builders maybe overlook this. I guess a rotary spark gap is a quenched gap, but a rotary gap limits the frequency of discharge because of physical considerations like practical rpm.

[7imix]

I meant three quarters of an amp, not a quarter.

[Inquorate]

Great stuff. I especially like the connotation that the battery packs more of a punch into a coil via intermediate capacitor stage, if the cap to coil arrangement is cut off before the cap is drained.. Great work