Re: Argon bubble

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

In a message dated 3/4/02 7:26:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
writes:

<< Hi everyone,
     I'm 15 and used to be on this great list of yours until my internet
 crashed.  I'm fairly experianced now with them and am trying to move to a
 nicer system.  I'm building a coil for school that's pretty close to
 finished and I wanted to play around with a few things. I've read on the
 internet that using argon as an atmosphere can increase arc length several
 times(Bill Beaty).  I was thinking and I am really wanting to try using
 argon in some experiments.  My coil is a 6" with 4 12,000/30 NST's of
 input, expecting around 5 feet or so in reg air.  My cap is a .03 maxwell
 pulse cap that's rated at 35kv.  Would it be possible to make a giant
 balloon kind of thing full of argon with LDPE sheeting or something, say 20
 feet or so in diameter, and put my coil inside.  I know there may be some
 problems that would need to be overcome like dissipation of the gas,
 getting the gas to be less than atmospheric pressure, limiting arc length,
 vacuming and tuning etc, but would this be pos!
 sible to do, and if so what could I expect from it?  Also what would the
 problems be and ways to fix them that I might have with such a thing?
 Thanks for any help.
 
 Will Daniels
 Kansas City, KS
 
  >>
Hi, you could get a giant weather balloon about 9 ft in diameter from places 
like Edmund Scientific.This would be hard to place the system inside the 
balloon.You could try routing the HV output into the balloon.

Otherwise, could luck.Thats a big coil!Be careful.
Matt