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Re: Testing OILs and UN-Potting Neons.
As Gary says, most any oil will work. The most important is thing is clean
and dry...
Small particles greatly reduce the breakdown strength, as do small water
droplets.
Package your system so that outside air (which has humidity) doesn't get in
through the breathers etc..
>I have tested several different types of oils that have no additives.
>Hydraulic
>oil from a farm supply store tests out very good for high voltage use and
>its cost
>only $1.00 per gallon. Power steering oil from Auto Zone checkes out good
at a
>cost of $2.00 a quart. Auto Zone has 2 types of power steering oils, one
>is RED
>color and the other has no color. I did not test the RED one. Hydraulic
>oil from
>a construction equipment dealership works good, $1.00 a gallon. From the
oils I
>have tested so far it looks like any thin oil with no additives will work
>good for
>high voltage use.
>
>I built an adjustable spark gap. Then I put the spark gap under high
>voltage oil
>that I bought from the power company. At 15K volts it will jump a very
>tiny thin
>spark across a .062 gap. The lights must be turned off and you have to
>look very
>close to see the spark. I got the same results with all the other oils
that I
>tested. Next I connected the spark gap to several different places on my
Tesla
>Coil and turned on the coil. I could sometimes get a spark to jump across
>a .075
>gap. The sparks were very tiny thin sparks with all the oils I tested. I
>am not
>sure how scientific this is but I think it proves you don't have to spend a
>lot of
>money on oil to get something that will work.
>
>I talked to the maintenance supervisor at the power company and he says the
>most
>important thing is to have pure clean oil.
>