Re: Tiny Spark Gaps? (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:34:00 +0100
From: colin heath <colin.heath4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Tiny Spark Gaps? (fwd)

hi carl,
        i have seen spark gaps like you describe and also have a high
voltage relay of this size from a defib.
cheers
colin heath

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Subject: Tiny Spark Gaps? (fwd)


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> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 11:48:51 -0500
> From: Carl Litton <Carl_Litton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Tiny Spark Gaps?
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> Carl Litton
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> Throughout the charging systems of a very high voltage capacitive
> discharge system, we are finding small devices that appear to be tiny
> spark gaps in cylindrical glass cases.  ~1cm x 1cm clear tube with metal
> end caps and axial leads, interior surface of end caps is strongly
> convex.
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> Are these things what they seem?  Would they be useful in transformer
> protection circuits?
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> Carl Litton
> Hilton Hotels Corporation
> 901-374-5747
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> [Barry...?  This sounds like a question for you... SRR]
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