Re: [TCML] Terry Filter, Saftey Gap Distance?

[Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here's my 6.25 cm sphere gap:

http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/garage/sphere_gap1.jpg

http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/garage/sphere_gap2.jpg

It's part of an old-school 10 kV insulation tester.

Adam

--- On Sat, 6/14/08, Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [TCML] Terry Filter, Saftey Gap Distance?
> To: "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Tesla Coil Mailing List" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 12:31 PM

<snip>

> See, e.g., http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/paschen.htm
> or http://home.earthlink.net/~jimlux/hv/sphgap.htm
> 
> For spheres that are large compared to the gap (e.g. 10cm
> diameter spheres, 1 cm gap) there is a large body of
> empirical data that can be used to make
> "calibrated" spark gaps with known breakdown
> voltages (to roughly 5% accuracy)
> 



      
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