Re: Caps across the neon

To: tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Caps across the neon
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 08:57:46 -0600
Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

Subject: 
        Re: Caps across the neon
  Date: 
        Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:32:22 +0200
  From: 
        Kenneth Aaron <kennetha-at-geocities-dot-com>
    To: 
        huffman <huffman-at-FNAL.GOV>, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com


At 12:13 PM 3/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Kenneth,
>The life of a neon is mainly spent with its output shorted, a hundred volts
>or so across the luminous lamp, compared to the open circuit voltage of
>multiple kilovolts. The cap we place across the output is a small load to
>the neon since we want it (capacitor) to charge it to the high voltage the
>neon can produce. Neon are made to run into a short without dieing.
>Dave Huffman
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and if i were to use microwave transformers (4 in series( then what ?
would they live ?
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Kenneth Aaron 
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