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12.03.2006, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by BrianG
According to Wikipedia, it takes about 30,000v/cm to arc across air. I don't know if the induced feedback signals can spike high enough to get to that point.

Interesting though.
That's odd... My dad has an old transformer that takes 120v AC and transforms it to 15,000v AC (it's basically a ~40-50lb chunk of copper). We have gotten it to arc at up to 2cm in normal air. I wonder if there's some sort of "special" air that the 30,000v/cm came from :005:.


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