Brass electrodes: was- A Little more than general questions II

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Tesla729-at-cs-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/13/01 7:47:12 PM Central Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes: 


>
> You can spend big bucks on 
> Tungsten rod if you want to, but you don't need to. 
> Brass and Copper electrodes have given me years of 
> excellent service. 
>
> Cheers, 
>
> Greg 
> http://hot-streamer-dot-com/greg 
>



Hi Greg, all, 

Amen! I use all brass electrodes on my rotary gap for my pole pig 
driven Tesla system and I get great performance from this setup. 
At around 6 kVA input from the ballasted 10 kVA, 14.4 kV pig, I 
get screaming 8 to 10 ft arcs that fill my small shop. After a few 
hours of operation at these power levels, the faces of the electrodes 
need a little dressing with a file, but that's the only maintenance 
that they require. I think Gary Lau? posted a paper that showed 
brass as the best all-round SG electrode material. 

Keeping 'em sparking in Memphis, 
David Rieben