Re: Ideas for HV Wiring.

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Original poster: "Ed Phillips by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Tesla list wrote:
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> Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
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> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:31 PM
> Subject: RE: Ideas for HV Wiring.
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> > Original poster: "Neil Richardson by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <neil-at-opticalrealities-dot-com>
> >
> > The Coax is just from the local DIY shop, the stuff used to connect the
> VCR
> > to the TV. Its a good thing that the spark gap was 1mm, cos thats where I
> > caught the 2 wires by accident. If the spark gap was larger I might have
> had
> > a discharge or 2 thru me from the cap bank. Now that would not have been
> > pretty.
> 
> That coax is usually low loss foam dielectric stuff, totally unsuited for
> HV.  For HV use, you want the stuff with a dielectric should be a solid
> translucent waxy substance (i.e. polyethylene or teflon).

	So far no one has mentioned that solid-dielectric coax of RG-8 size or
larger is stiff and inconvenient to use.  Other than that, pretty good
stuff.

Ed

Ed