RE: Exploding wire (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:51:21 -0800
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>, hvlist <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Exploding wire (fwd)

At 06:53 AM 12/3/2006, High Voltage list wrote:
>Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:18:21 -0800
>From: Jim Mora <jmora@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: 'High Voltage list' <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Exploding wire (fwd)
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>Hello List,
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>I'm not sure of the physics of what happens here, which I need to be, so I
>can answer questions when I demonstrate this. The caps are rated near 9KJ
>each *2 at full charge. That's a lot of energy dumped into a near short with
>low inductance! I got the impression that the material is supper heated to
>its vapor point, which in turn opens an arc channel to the remaining <50KV.
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>Since I ordered magnesium, it should be easy to compare that with say
>copper. I don't know what would happen with nichrome wire of the same
>diameter. I'll paste this to the Geek Group as well. What's a good source of
>30AWG aluminum wire, I can't find any?

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