Re: spark gap

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• Subject: Re: spark gap
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:44:06 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
• Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

Hi Ed,
> 
>         I used the gap on a fast quenching relatively low RMS current
system.  It
> did not get "too" hot as to destroy the epoxy.  A small fan would increase
> it's power handling dramatically.  I think the many very tight gaps really
> helped to spread out the heat too.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>         Terry

	I wondered about that last point.  Certainly there is more area and
less heat per gap.  By the way, in the cylinder gap I have here (only 7
pieces of 3/4" pipe, mounted on ceramic standoff insulators and then on
an aluminum plate) I mounted the thing so the cylinders were vertical,
which should give at least a little convection cooling.

Ed

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