Re: Need Ozone

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Original poster: "Jason Petrou by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <jasonp-at-btinternet-dot-com>

there is a way to check if there is O3or NOx gasses produced - run the coil
for half an hour in a confined space (like a bell jar or a small cupboard)
then put a lighted match into the cupboard. if it goes out, good so far.
then put a blacklight bulb into the space for about an hour, and then put a
match in. If it goes out then you have some kind of nitrogen oxide, if it
stays lit then you have ozone produced. (the blacklight bulp breaks the
ozone up into oxygen - 2 O3 => 3 O2.

Jason
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Subject: Re: Need Ozone


> Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>"
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> > The micro-coil I built with a homebrew 12V induction coil, which puts
> > out all of 15 watts EHT, is a really nasty little ozone plant.  I
> > can't play with this one without excellent ventilation, the problem of
> > course is that because it's so cute and relatively safe electrically
> > you tend to think there's no hazards at all, which isn't true.  It's
> > also just the thing that encourages you to play with it for long
> > periods at a time, as it's quite quiet and you can try all manner of
> > experiments with its two inch sparks which you wouldn't dream of doing
> > with anything mains-powered.  I was quite badly affected by it around
> > a year ago.  My 500W NST coil by comparison is very tame O3-wise,
> > though again a much worse O3 offender than the big coils at the Corby
> > Teslathon.  The Q&D VTTC which is around 50W input gives next to no
> > noxious gases at all, presumably because the plasma "flame" is sooooo
> > hot - I can melt glass and metal in it.
> >
> > Dunckx
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> I'm sure you get an odor.  How do you know it's ozone and not fixated
> nitrogen (nitrogen oxides)?  The odor around my coils is quite different
> from that around a germicidal lamp, which most surely IS ozone.
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> Ed
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