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Re: Sync-TC, latest results (comments on air blast gap)
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Subject: Re: Sync-TC, latest results (comments on air blast gap)
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Sat, 1 Nov 1997 14:40:10 -0600
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From: Jim Lux[SMTP:jimlux@earthlink.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 1997 9:24 AM
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Subject: Re: Sync-TC, latest results (comments on air blast gap)
> that ran intermittently and that used the blast of air that caused the
> gap-arc to bend? If so, maybe the gap firing voltage was higher than
> 8kV at times, because the air blast may have delayed the firing,
High performance air blast gaps, as designed by Marx, for instance, have
the air coming in from a chamber around the gap, and exiting through the
electrodes axially. This way, the gap length doesn't change.