Re: Better Electrode Material

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• Subject: Re: Better Electrode Material
• From: "Luc" <ludev-at-videotron.ca> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 19:06:53 -0600
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Hi John,


Silver sound interesting I have here a pound of pure silver chip and you could
easily coat copper with a thick coat of silver just with a propane torch , but
I'm interested to know on what kind of SG you use it.

Luc Benard(Montreal)

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: FutureT-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 5/25/00 7:45:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> writes:
>
> > >
> >  > Original Poster: "David Huffman" <huffman-at-fnal.gov>
> >  >
> >  > Hello All,
> >  > Just a thought here. Has anyone ever tested the effect of various metals
> > in
> >  > a spark gap? I remember hearing zinc is bad for several reasons.
Brass is
> >  > zinc and copper so maybe it would not be the best choice. It would be
> nice
> >  > to know the performance of a SG with different types of metals.
> >  > Dave Huffman
> >
> Dave,
>
> I've found that silver works very well for static gaps.  It never needs
> cleaning
> and seems to quench well.
>
> Cheers,
> John Freau

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