Gaseous Conductors: Theory and Engineering Applications 2022-02-11

Normally air is considered an insulator, but it will act surprisingly similar to a copper wire under certain circumstances. Understanding the factors can contribute to a safer DIY solar power system.

Arcing, also known as Plasma, may occur during operation of DIY solar power systems.

When Arcing or Plasma occuring in a DIY solar system, represents a significant compromise of safety.

To better understand the conditions under which this usually undesirable phenomenon occurs, this resource describes the phenomenon of things like Air conducting Electrical Current.

Gaseous discharges have been studied for a very long time and may be said to have given birth to the atomic age. The field, however, is far from a dead one, as the large and active attendance at the annual conference for Gaseous Electronics, sponsored by the Division of Electron Physics of the American Physical Society, attests. Many applications of gaseous discharges are now being found in the glamorous new studies in hypersonics, missiles, fusion, etc. Many studies continue to be made in refining the measurements of fundamental quantities by new electronic techniques.

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