Original poster: "Neal Namowicz" <mr_neal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Hi guys, could someone please tell me how torrs equate to in/hg? That's how the gauge on my little pump measures vacuum, and yes, I have been running HV through my little home-made vacuum tubes. (If I pump enough, I can get down to around 25 in/hg) The plasma streamers are fascinating to watch, especially how they change as you continue to increase the vacuum on them. Yeah, I know about the potential for X-ray emissions, but I figured I was probably exposed to a whole lot more when I had a full mouth x-rays taken at the dentist's.
Neal. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 5:43 PM Subject: Re: health question
Original poster: DRIEBEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mike, Oops, me open mouth, insert foot :^) For some reason, I was mentally equating "torrs" to "millitorrs"! I think we agree that it requires a very hard vacuum to generate significant hard x-rays of several hundred kEVs and that's what I was trying to say. Of course the Marx generator or natural lightning is in another catagory and as you say, it would apear that high POWER (not necessarily high ENERGY) discharges seem to be able to generate some x-rays, even at STP. Of course with lightning events in the upper levels of the atmosphere, the discharges are occuring in at least a partial vacuum.