RE: HV Wire - electrical tape?

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Original poster: "Black Moon by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <black_moons-at-hotmail-dot-com>

Heh, I have a 20kv flyback, that even *with* 8 layers of insulation tape, 
even tho it dosent arc though instantly like it does with 4 or less layers, 
within 60 seconds the corna has eaten though the tape



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>Subject: RE: HV Wire - electrical tape?
>Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 14:22:37 -0700
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>Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
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>No, not entirely correct.  High voltage will do anything it can to find a
>path between two potentials.
>For example, the smallest microscopic hole in say 1 inch PVC will yield a
>weak point where arcing through it
>can occur.
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>If you just wrap layers and layers together, you may end up with lots of
>these weak points (paths).
>You really need a continous sleeve, not some half-mummy looking insulation
>around your wire.
>
>Dan
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>  >     On the topic of cheap HV wire, what about wrapping any guage of wire
>  > with electrical tape?  Even though it's UL listed for only 600V, aren't
>the
>  > ratings much higher? I've seen some for 10,000 V I believe...
>  >     Put a few layers of that on there and you could have some 30, 40, 50
>kV
>  > wire, right?
>  >
>  > Jonathon Reinhart
>  > hot-streamer-dot-com/jonathon
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