Re: Official air breakdown voltage?

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Original poster: "JT Bowles" <jasotb@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Drawn arc, I do believe. If you start at 1' and use 12KV, with 
5000amps of current, you wont get a spark at all. But if you begin 
with a drawn arc, you may get it to STRETCH to 1'.

Clear?


> From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Official air breakdown voltage?
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 12:39:32 -0700
>
> Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> At 09:03 AM 11/27/2005, Tesla list wrote:
> > Original poster: "JT Bowles" <jasotb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > exactly. a 12KV spark, at 30MA may only be 1/2 inch long. But, at 
> > thousands of amperes, it can stretched to over a foot
>
>
> Distinguish, here, between a spark and a "drawn arc"...  Spark means 
> jumping across the gap.  Drawn arcs are totally different.