Re: Ozone (Was: Discharge impedance...

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• Subject: Re: Ozone (Was: Discharge impedance...
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <malcolm.watts-at-wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 15:06:37 -0700
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Hi all,

> Original Poster: "Alex Crow" <user-at-alexcrow.clara-dot-net> 
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> One thing I remembered in conjunction with all the replies I've seen on the
> level of Ozone generated vs. power and temperature. When I first ran my coil,
> I was putting in about 1kVA. At this level, the ozone generated was very
> significant, and the smell was really pungent and recognisable. When I
moved up
> to 2kVA, the smell changed - it became more fetid and acrid, which might
> suggest
> to me that the higher temperature of the arcs (there were also many ground
> strikes) was not only recombining O3 into O2 but also generating NOx. A
shame,
> because I actually really liked the smell of the pure ozone!
> 
> Alex

An interesting set of observations. Again I fired a coil last weekend 
at a somewhat higher power than the previous weekend and the 
smell did seem more acrid. In fact it began to affect my eyes after a 
couple of minutes.
     The point about photocopiers and other low level sources 
producing ozone is well taken. It seems that there is a consensus 
that a flamelike discharge is an ozone destroyer. I can buy that. 
Thanks for everybody's input.

Regards,
Malcolm

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