Re: High Voltage Reference

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

It's actually a textbook written by Prof. Lucas at a university in Sri 
Lanka, presumably carrying on the long academic tradition of writing the 
textbook you're going to use in your class. Why have all those students 
buying textbooks by Naidu & Kamaraju (from India) or Khalifa (from Egypt) 
or Kuffel, etc.

At 08:22 AM 4/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Mike by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><megavolts61-at-yahoo-dot-com>
>
>Thanks Dave!
>
> >I stumbled onto this URL while researching electrical
>creepage for
> >work project.  It is 11 chapters in all (replace
>numeral '1'
> >with 2,3,4, etc.), about 200-300 pages in all.
> >  http://www.elect.mrt.ac.lk/HV_Chap1.pdf
>
><snip>
>
>I just started reading the first chapter of this and
>wanted to mention that, although it seems to be
>valuable information, I've noticed three pages that
>appear to have mistakes. I'll note these:
>
>   Now, I am sure that this reference is the result of
>much hard work and that the information is essentially
>correct, but if I can find three mistakes from just
>skimming through the material in five minutes, it does
>make me a little gaurded in believing everything I
>read in it(I have not scrutinized the equations or
>anything).  I would think that someone publishing a
>paper of this nature would have had it proof read
>first. I guess I am just suggesting that, if you use
>this information, you might want to check the accuracy
>first.
>Mike