Re: Ebay deals

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

In a message dated 4/17/01 10:17:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes: 


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> Original poster: "Matt Segal by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" < 
> segal3-at-linkline-dot-com> 
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> Can you explain how they would work for TC work? For some high current 
> switching they might work, but to act as a spark gap, you'd have to set up a 
> circuit that monitors the cap voltage and when it reaches a certain value, 
> sets off the vacuum relay. And then again, it's only 100A, so it'd break 
> pretty quick. 
>
> ~Matt Segal 
> Email - segal3-at-linkline-dot-com 
> Webpage - http://www.carbonOS-dot-com 


Hi Matt S. 
I think you'll find that the 100Amp rating is average, not instantaneous 
(transient) current, which can be a couple orders of magnitude higher if the 
time is short enough. It does seem like a unique but cumbersome spark gap. I 
checked out the high-bidders profile last night. He's a professional 
physicist/engineer with foundation money behind him. This auction could get 
very expensive. 
Matt D.