Re: [TCML] Safety Gap Construction

["Phillip Slawinski" <pslawinski@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you have a Home Depot or Lowes near you.  You can just pick up
brass acorn nuts.  These have rounded ends.

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Nicholas J. Goble <ngoble@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> How do I construct a safety gap?  From what I see, it's just three
> brass balls.  The middle one is grounded and the end two are connected
> to the transformer wires.  Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I only have two questions:
>
> 1) Where can I buy brass balls? I've looked on the internet, but I just
> can't find any.  Or maybe I don't need brass balls at all.  Is there
> some other way I can construct a safety gap?
>
> 2) How can I determine the spacing of the balls? Is there any formula
> to calculate the gaps, or should I just guess?
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Nicholas Goble
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