Re: Stopping Arcs

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>

Hi Simon,

Silcon should do the trick!

Cheers,

	Terry

At 10:15 AM 12/15/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Hi all.
>Well, my coil is very near completion- the only thing I am waiting on is
>Caps, and they are on backorder. Anyway, I made a NST protection unit for
>my coil. Due to the limiting size of perfboard that I could get,
>[~12cmx12cm] it has taken me a while to stop arcing across the connections.
>Now, it only arcs across one connection. Is there anything I can put on
>there to stop it arcing? I was thinking silicon - would this work?
>
>the gap that it is firing across is about 1 to 2 cm. 
>
>Thanks again,
>Simon 
>