RE: Nitrogen VS Compressed air quenching

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Original poster: "Arpit Thomas" <arpit-at-inzo-dot-org> 

I wouldn't think so. Air is a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen, but if you 
were nblasting the gap with nitrogen, thtere wouldn't be much oxygen for it 
to react with in the hot part of the system....

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On 3/05/2004 at 4:49 PM Tesla list wrote:

 >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
 > >
 > >
 > > 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
 > >
 > >