Re: safety gaps - was: Racing Spark Prediction

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Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx 

In a message dated 5/10/06 1:11:30 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

>so you were relying only on safety gaps? then what do you think about this:
>
>http://www.eeel.nist.gov/817/817g/spd-anthology/files/Evaluate%201963%20SPDs.pdf
    Interesting data from that report: For the GE Hydrogen gas spark 
gap used as a surge suppressor, they spec stainless steel electrodes 
as handling less than one-sixth the energy of tungsten electrodes.

-Phil LaBudde