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Re: additional transformers [rolled caps]
From: Peter Electric[SMTP:elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au]
Reply To: elekessy-at-macquarie.matra-dot-com.au
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 1997 4:08 AM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: additional transformers [rolled caps]
Tesla List wrote:
>
> From: Jason Judd[SMTP:jason.judd-at-anu.edu.au]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 7:14 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: Re: additional transformers [rolled caps]
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > Thanks for the info on that, I will go 2" on my future overlaps. It
> > seems strange to me that sparks seem to travel much further along the
> > surface of an insulator, no matter how clean it seems to be. Maybe
> this
> > is due to microscopic impurities on the surface of the plastic?
> >
> > Another little trick that you probably have already figured out is to
> > insulate the input connections to the plates by rolling a few layers
> of
> > poly around them.
> >
> > Cheers, Peter E.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Peter , all
>
> as I understand it high voltage insulators are make corregated to stop
> what you are talking about. With a DC voltage the charge "creeps" from
> top and bottom and when it meats a flash over is started. The
> insulators are made corregated to give a greater surface area making it
> harder for the static charge to bridge. I do not know if a similar
> thing happens at say 200 KHZ though.
>
> Feel free to correct me on this.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jason
Maybe we need to find some corrugated plastic to make our caps out of!
Just kidding,
Peter E.