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RE: differential probes



Original poster: "jimmy hynes by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chunkyboy86-at-yahoo-dot-com>

Hi,

My stun gun used two staples for a spark gap. They
formed an X shape, and could be adjusted by pushing on
it. I would just need a way to calibrate it. If I used
"BBs" or 0.25 inch balls, I could solder them in
holes, and just look up the breakdown voltage for
spheres.

I'll cut the boards up wherever it looks like it needs
it.


--- Tesla list <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com> wrote:
 > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi Malcolm,
 >
 >
 > >I haven't downloaded the file as I don't have a
 > suitable program to
 > >open it with available on the NW. I do have a tip
 > to deal with the
 > >problem mentioned in the previous paragraph: the
 > way to increase the
 > >isolation barrier without consuming a lot of board
 > space is to
 > >physically cut a slot in the board across the
 > isolation barrier. This
 > >gets rid of the problem of surface tracking. I
 > presume fibreglass is
 > >the material of choice for this board? <paxolin or
 > anything like it
 > >is OUT>.
 > >
 > >Malcolm
 > ><snip>
 >
 >
 > That is a very good idea!  Tracking under these long
 > resistors could be a
 > big problem especially with a little left over flux.
 >
 > Jimmy - Could we drill 4 big holes under the
 > resistors?
 >
 > Also, I think hooking to the board with very thin
 > wire and then having
 > spark gaps on the board to take "bad" events is the
 > way to go.  Maybe
 > solder "BB's" or 1/4 inch balls to the board at some
 > spacing.  The spark
 > gaps could take a big high voltage high current hit
 > (arc at 2500V) and then
 > the thin wires could blow apart and basically take
 > things out of the
 > circuit.  I'll see if I can figure something simple
 > out there...
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 >          Terry
 >
 >
 >


=====
Jimmy

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