Re: Air as di-electric

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• Subject: Re: Air as di-electric
• From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
• Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:00:03 -0800
• Subscriber: hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com Mon Jan 6 22:15:29 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> > > Subject: Air as di-electric
> > Subject: Re: Air as di-electric
> > > Subject: Air as di-electric
> 
> Subscriber: gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net Sat Jan  4 21:54:27 1997
> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 09:00:07 -0800
> From: Gary Weaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: Air as di-electric
> 
> Tesla List wrote:
> >I use to use air capacitors all the time and had very good luck with them
> much better than glass plate capacitors.  I was running one 12K 30 ma neon on
> the TC.  I use to space the steel plates 7/8" apart.  I found out that the
> capacitor can be used as the spark gap.  Put the transformer, capacitor and
> the primary all in series with NO spark gap.  Every time the capacitor
> charges it arcs over to the other plate. The capacitor is very loud and also
> very interesting.  The capacitor has what appears to be 100's of arcs all
> over it and it will light up a dark room.  Sounds about like someone shooting
> off a 2000 pack or firecrackers but not quite as loud as real firecrackers.
> 
> Gary Weaver

Gary,

You use of the air cap as a break down device is both interesting and 
novel in its approach as the capacitor is not needed as it breaks down, 
but only when succesive rings of the primary occur.  Still, the activity 
of the glow and tiny sparklettes are dead giveaways of huge amounts 
of lost system energy.

Richared Hull, TCBOR

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