Re: Tiny Spark Gaps? (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:52:50 -0600
From: Gomez Addams <gomez@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tiny Spark Gaps? (fwd)

Those sound like "spark gap" (gas filled discharge tubes) used for 
transient over voltage protection.

[Barry B (nudge nudge) can comment more on this, since he's used them as
spark gaps for small Tesla coils too.  Way kewl! SRR]

On Oct 8, 2004, at 10:54 AM, High Voltage list wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:48:51 -0500
> From: Carl Litton <Carl_Litton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Tiny Spark Gaps?
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> Carl Litton
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> Throughout the charging systems of a very high voltage capacitive
> discharge system, we are finding small devices that appear to be tiny
> spark gaps in cylindrical glass cases.  ~1cm x 1cm clear tube with 
> metal
> end caps and axial leads, interior surface of end caps is strongly
> convex.
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> Are these things what they seem?  Would they be useful in transformer
> protection circuits?
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> Carl Litton
> Hilton Hotels Corporation
> 901-374-5747
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> [Barry...?  This sounds like a question for you... SRR]
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