Re: safety gaps - was: Racing Spark Prediction

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Original poster: dest <dest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

concerning the subj of this thread i`m more interested in discussing
such facts like this:

"ONLY solid state gaps has acceptable turn on characteristics."
"Gap types exhibited the expected volt-time lag characteristics"
"the existence of a volt-time characteristic for the breakdown"

and especially like this:

"500 +-100V gap, 1100 volts applied surge - breakdown in 7 uS"
&
"No breakdown could be produced with a single shot impulse below
1100v"


> Original poster: FIFTYGUY@xxxxxxx

> 
 >http://www.eeel.nist.gov/817/817g/spd-anthology/files/Evaluate%201963%20SPDs.pdf

>      Interesting data from that report: For the GE Hydrogen gas spark
> gap used as a surge suppressor, they spec stainless steel electrodes
> as handling less than one-sixth the energy of tungsten electrodes.