Re: Snow on telly, help needed ! (Comment on X-rays)

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• Subject: Re: Snow on telly, help needed ! (Comment on X-rays)
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 17:14:42 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

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> This may at least help you determine whether or not the gap is the
culprit.
> An EE buddy of mine keeps insisting that I place my gap in such a shield
to
> prevent the emanation of x-rays (and VHF/UHF radiation perhaps) from the
gap
> itself. 

At atmospheric pressure and only a few tens of kV, it is unlikely you are
getting X-rays from your gap, at least from electron bombardment. And, I
suspect your system doesn't have a low enough inductance to generate xrays
from Zpinch, which requires di/dt >> 1E9 A/sec

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