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Re: safety gaps
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To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
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Subject: Re: safety gaps
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From: Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 06:32:25 -0700
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Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme
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In-Reply-To: <200001030740.IAA26250-at-server1.media-online.de>
Hi Herwig,
The safety gaps fire with sort of a machine gun rate (really loud). Once
the voltage drops back to the proper level the gaps will stop firing easily
by themselves. So they work quite well as is.
I "think" the high energy explosive nature of the arc when the gaps are
shorting the primary circuit helps to blow them out, unlike when they are
just running the 60mA from the neon.
Cheers,
Terry
At 08:39 AM 01/03/2000 +0100, you wrote:
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>Hi Terry,
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>> You want to set the gaps so that they just do not fire when just
>the bare NST with nothing else connected is put across it at full
>voltage.
>- Does this mean that the safety gaps will continue firing forever if
>initiated once? Is there any cure? The use of Jacob's ladders
>instead of the usual safety gaps made from copper pipes?
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>Bye Herwig
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