RE: Nitrogen VS Compressed air quenching

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Original poster: "Ian McLean" <ianmm-at-optusnet-dot-com.au> 

Just a quick question about nitrogen quenching.  Does this cause the
generation of more NxOx gases from the gap than normal?

Rgs
Ian.

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 > Subject: Re: Nitrogen VS Compressed air quenching
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 >
 > Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <arpit-at-inzo-dot-org>
 >
 > wow, thats interesting. Now what could it be about nitrogen
 > that provides
 > better quenching? could it be the fact tehre is less oxygen
 > to react with
 > or something? IT seems to me that if nitrogen is much better than
 > compressed air, you could save a bit of time carting a heavy
 > tank back and
 > forth if you made a circulating system for the nitrogen. a
 > vacuum cleaner
 > blower would be connected to the spark gap, and the exhauset
 > of the spark
 > gap ( this is all happening in a moderately large chamber)  then goes
 > through some metal pipe which cools it, and then goes into
 > the a resevoir,
 > such as an old water heater, then goes back to the blower.
 > YOud fill the
 > heater up with low pressure (2 atmospheres or so? ) nitrogen,
 > and then let
 > it last for ages :)
 >
 > How's carbon dioxide for quenching? I pinched an old (bit
 > rusty) water
 > heater made in 1988 off another house in my street which was
 > going to be
 > demolished, and carried it home. I'm using it as an air tank,
 > and might use
 > it to power an air blast gap. Another potential use would be
 > to put some
 > chemicals in which would react and generate carbon dioxxide
 > at a pressure
 > of about 6 or 7 atmospheres. I'd then use that to blast the gap :)
 >
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 > On 2/05/2004 at 4:42 PM Tesla list wrote:
 >
 >  >Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >I've added photos of my prototype nitrogen manifold to my
 > website, here's
 >  >the link:
 >  >
 >  >http://www.tesla-coil-dot-com/bipolar.htm
 >  >
 >  >They're at the bottom of that page.  There's a photo of it
 > installed in
 >  >the
 >  >original cabinet and two close-ups of the manifold that I just took
 >  >today.  For quenching ability the nitrogen is extremely
 > effective while
 >  >compressed air is barely noticeable, apples and oranges.
 > FWIW a 42 cubic
 >  >foot bottle costs about 14.00 to fill and lasts for two 8
 > to 10 minute
 >  >runs, the bottle and regulator were around 400.00
 >
 >