Voltage & Current..

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jan 29 15:30:17 2004

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From: "Joe R." <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: Voltage & Current..


> At 12:02 PM 1/29/04 -0800, you wrote:
> >> > I think perhaps it's best for Lyos to maintain his present beliefs
about
> >> > voltage and current. Over time I'm sure he'll collect more empirical
> >> > data to either confirm or deny his hypothesis (though quite likely at
> >> > some cost if he's as stubborn in his beliefs as I suspect the case to
> >> > be).
> >On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> >> In other words, blows himself up with a 3kV-to-240v electricity pole
> >> transformer?
> >
> >Would that damage the transformer? (how many amps are those?)
>
> I believe that they're AT LEAST 1 Amp ON THE 3kV SIDE! The neon sign
> manufacturer's use them to step the 240 back up to 2 or 3 kV at 1 Amp to
> burn the gasses out of the glass walls of tubes that they use to make neon
> signs with. They run them at ~1 Amp for 24 hours and the tubes are almost
> white hot.
>
> Joe
>
Funny, All the glass/quarts tubes I have seen don't glow any color even when
melting.
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