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Re: Caps across the neon
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Re: Caps across the neon
Date:
Thu, 27 Mar 1997 12:32:22 +0200
From:
Kenneth Aaron <kennetha@geocities.com>
To:
huffman <huffman@FNAL.GOV>, tesla@pupman.com
At 12:13 PM 3/26/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Kenneth,
>The life of a neon is mainly spent with its output shorted, a hundred volts
>or so across the luminous lamp, compared to the open circuit voltage of
>multiple kilovolts. The cap we place across the output is a small load to
>the neon since we want it (capacitor) to charge it to the high voltage the
>neon can produce. Neon are made to run into a short without dieing.
>Dave Huffman
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and if i were to use microwave transformers (4 in series( then what ?
would they live ?
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