Re: Odd facts

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Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com> 

Have you considered directly injecting compressed nitrogen focussed at the 
gap or gaps?  I've built an acrylic tube manifold for this purpose.  With a 
regulator on the bottle I run it at around 50-100psi.  Sort of like an 
accelerator on a car engine.  I've also powered that manifold with a 
compressor, immediately after running it with nitrogen, and the compressed 
air doesn't come close to the quenching ability of nitrogen (which has the 
highest breakdown voltage of the commonly available gases).  I'll get some 
pics of this posted to my web.

John


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From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date:  Sun, 18 Apr 2004 22:22:49 -0600

 >Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance-at-jvlnet-dot-com>
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 >No change in streamer length with an airblast indicates your spark gap is
 >quenching adequately in it's present design form.
 >
 >Dr. Resonance
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 > > Original poster: "Christopher 'CajunCoiler' Mayeux" <cajuncoiler-at-cox-dot-net>
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 > > 1. I borrowed a shop-vac to try blowing high-volume
 > >     air over my spark gap, but alas, there was no
 > >     deviation in streamer length to attribute to this
 > >     temporary quenching method.
 > >
 > > 2. Although streamers are varying in length from 12
 > >     to 18 inches, the field of energy can (and will)
 > >     raise the hair on my arm, up to 32 inches away
 > >     from the edge of the toroid.
 > > --
 > > Christopher 'CajunCoiler' Mayeux
 > > cajuncoiler-at-msbdatasystems-dot-com
 > > http://tesla.msbdatasystems-dot-com
 > >
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