RE: water as spark gap dielectric

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

At 11:12 AM 4/17/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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>What type of material were they using for electrodes????
>They may have been using some type of exotic metal.  I think that during
>heavy current arcing, the material
>may break down enough to leak material or other oxides into the water thus
>ionizing the water and ruining the
>spark gap.
>
>The Captain

It doesn't say what material. Stainless steel or copper, probably.  Since 
they had a flowing water system, I'll bet they run it through a cartridge 
deionizer.