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Re: Pressure adjustments for smaller tubes
>Tom,
>very good points. The best example I hear of time and time again is of
>people doing the letter "i" . Everyone has a tendency to "make the letter
>look better" by making the dot on the top a seperate piece rather than having
>a transition from the body of the letter to the dot. The dot might have 6
>inches of glass in it when it is done seperatly. If it's pumped red, and
>filled to "normal" pressure it dies in 6 months.
>As for "compression" of the arc stream in real high pressure tubes, I'm
>guessing that it occurs because of a combination of 1) path of least
>resistance / shortest path, combined with 2) tangentially off this path
>between electrodes energized parts flying around don't need to move far
>before they hit somthing else; in a normal pressure tube they would travel
>further before things collide which would spread out the arc stream ( ? hey,
>us ME's need a lot of models for stuff like this cuz we really don't
>understand electricity. Any real EE's would be welcome to chime in now).
>Morgan
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I must have been dozing in EE school when that came up. It's really a physics
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