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Thank you for your reply, Yes, I see what you mean with the build up of gases, I should seal the container with electrodes spaced around 1 cm apart to start and as the ozone and nitrous build up and the temperature increases then stretch the arc. I can calculate the pace of stretching based...

3 × 10^6 V/m I have found several sources like hypertextboox qouteing the average votage for dielectric breakdown of air around 3 × 10^6 V/m I took this as a base line and divided 3,000,000 by 100 then mutliplied it by 10 to arive at 300,000 volts for every 10cm. Exclueding the build up of...

Thanks for your reply, yes I had read that for STP air (standard temperature pressure) that is almost if not moisture free the voltage required is about 300,000 to 330,000 volts on average. I had chosen the sharp contacts as I had read that they would also allow the electric to flow with less...

First of all thank you mheslep for the speedy reply, I appreciate it. I could use an array of extremely high voltage generators to produce 300,000 to 330,000 volts and a continuous 10cm electric arc (assuming a standard pressure and temperature air mix), but this would still be a process of...

Can someone help me find these calculations or give me a point in the right directions? If I have a hollow insulating cylinder (has a diameter of 5 cm and a length of 14 cm) with two (conductive) sharp metal point contacts at each end (measuring 2cm each leaving 10 cm exactly between the...

Can someone help me find these calculations or give me a point in the right directions? If I have a hollow insulating cylinder (has a diameter of 5 cm and a length of 14 cm) with two (conductive) sharp metal point contacts at each end (measuring 2cm each leaving 10 cm exactly between the...

Thanks for the help, got the details down and modified the design. The original construction was all about equal magnetic compression on a central core, after reading up (thanks to the materials you supplied) I scrub the original idea and started to incorporate the theta pinch coil system...

So (I think) it would be possible... Thanks for the reply, below I have tried to answer my own questions. But again any input on the topic is great. Yes, this would produce an electromagnet and in turn radiate a magnetic field outwards/inwards from the poles on the soft iron core. The soft...

Hello, I am new to this forum and have a couple of questions. One person has already asked it but with no answers I thought I would give it ago. The topic is about magnetism and magnetic fields (I’m a newbie to the subject, so please forgive me if I make no sense but I got to learn...