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Excerpt from Design and Construction of an Electric Arc Generator for Fuel Ignition Studies
The source voltage and short-circuit current established the minimum values for the capabilities of the switch. It must control a sustained current of at least 700 amps and have a voltage breakdown of at least 525 volts. We used an engineering safety factor of about 2, requiring volts standoff and ampere current capacity for 1 sec as the design values for the switch. At this current, for 1 sec, the series resistor must dissipate to kw without heating to destruction. Because we expected an interval of several minutes between arcs, one-shot, or nonrepetitive, ratings of switching devices were used.
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