Originally posted by Vinyasi
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An air-based spark gap has a voltage breakdown of around 1kV so the gap or space between the spheres will still continue to be a non-plasma and in a state of a pre-arcing ionization even though the interior of the tubes and spheres are a plasma and are busy arcing across the helium or neon noble gases which have a voltage breakdown of approximately 10 to 20 times less than the atmosphere (45V for helium).
This more recent development of conceptualization is significant because it creates two types of spark gaps within the circuit. One type is arcing and the other is not. And the type that is arcing is giving us negative resistance from inside of the tubes and spheres while the other type is not arcing and not in a state of a plasma but is merely ionizing in a state of pre-arcing in the space between the spheres.
This space between the spheres, in some respects, is the most significant of both types of spark gap activity due to its ability to boost the generation or amplification of reactive power within circuit components outside of itself without being powerful itself.
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