Re: Plasma

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• Subject: Re: Plasma
• From: "Ed Phillips" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 19:14:16 -0700
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: "Christopher Boden" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>
> 
> What is the temp of the plasma in the spark gap? In the discharge?
> 
> Fire/plasma conducts, why?
> 
> Can magnets be mounted under a static gap to increase quenching in an
> application where it would be difficult to mount a fan? Has anyone tried
> this?
> 
	Have been thinking along similar lines, but haven't had a chance to try
it here. There is a long history of use of magnets in similar
applications, including arc oscillators and "magnetic quenching" circuit
breakers.  With some of the new neodynium iron boron magnets you can get
a very strong field, which might well work.  The magnetic field lines
should be perpendicular to the spark so as to move the ion path
sidewards.  

Ed

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