Re: High Voltage but Low Current fuses...

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Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>

Tesla list wrote:
 >
 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

 > 1.  ~30000 V withstand and break.
 >
 > 2.  About 250mA of fuse current, but NOT at all critical.  The current is
 > either 100 mA (normal) or 500 amps (Yipps!!  turn it
 > off!!)  ;-))  Basically a far "much less than 1 amp" but very high voltage
 > fuse...

 > Any ideas are welcome.  Both of my little projects seem to need darn good
 > high voltage fuses...  The fuses themselves might become the third project
 > ;-))

Maybe this, that is easy to assemble:
A vertical fuse made with thin wire, with the upper end secured at a
fixed support, and the lower end connected to a flexible wire and a
weight that can fall if the fuse opens.

Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz