Re: Spark Gap Gasses Experiment

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• Subject: Re: Spark Gap Gasses Experiment
• From: Richard Hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 08:10:18 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

>
>
>     At work we have a hydrogen spark gap with operates at up to 30atm
> pressure, it is not used with tesla coils, but it is in a capacitor
discharge
> circuit, and the quenching is INCREDABLE, we can operate it with primary
> energies of 10's of joules per discharge with rep rates over 5KHz, and even
> then it is not the gap which is the limiting factor, but the system it is
> driving.

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Hydrogen has always been the gas of choice for rapid quenching of arcs or
rapid
switching.  Argon, Helium, Nitrogen, etc, are all inferior to good ole H2
or D2.

Richard Hull, TCBOR

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