TIME JITTER IN ROTARY-GAP TESLA COILS
 Submission for Jim Sheppard; (c) 1991 Robert M. Jamison                         TIME JITTER IN ROTARY-GAP TESLA COILS                       -------------------------------------                                   ABSTRACT    The source of time jitter in rotary gap Tesla Coils is examined both  experimentally and mathematically.  Calculations demonstrate that jitter  appears even if the rotary gap is machined to high precision.  The  principal source of jitter is shown to be the ringing of the capacitance  and transformer inductance in relationship to the rotary electrodes.  A  computer model of jitter was made and supplements the text.                        ...