RE: Potting Diode Strings - yes!

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi all

I would put the diode strings under transformer oil. These diode sticks
don't seem soluble in oil. In a rectified x-ray transformer, the diode
sticks are under oil. Some of the diode sticks in x-ray transformers are
strings of one inch long diodes. Yet they do not flash over even at
potentials over 100 kV. 

Godfrey Loudner

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> Subject:	Re: Potting Diode Strings - yes!
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> Original poster: "PotLuck by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <potluck-at-xmission-dot-com>
> 
> Hi Kevin, all,
> 
> I suppose my question was a bit misleading. If corona is the enemy here
> then
> could corona dope be used instead of potting the diodes? I've not used it,
> nor have I seen it mentioned much, if at all, on the list. If it can be
> used
> instead of potting then it would probably be a lot easier to "service" a
> string if a diode went bad?
> 
> Rick W.
> Salt Lake City
>