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Date:         Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:11:23 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fwd: RE: "Green" solar battery charger
Comments: To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>
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At 04:58 PM 11/14/2003, David Brodbeck wrote:


>of the more compact methods is to put the contacts inside a sealed chamber
>which is evacuated to a high vaccuum.  No air means nothing to ionize
>to carry the arc current.


Ah ha!  And you don't get a metal arc?  Are the contacts tungsten or some such?


But getting back to IC ignition, how much of that is arc?  Does it really
become the low-resistance point of the system?


d




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