Re: [LIH][OT] Re: modem

[Dwivedi Ajay kumar]

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:

> I saw some in our near by power station the 15ft ceramic things but they
> can stand 440V only i guess. I guess we just have to scale it up a bit but
> drastically decrease the capacitance :)

        They must be the insulators. (And power stations work at around
11-33KV) You don't need a 15 ft insulator for 440 V.

> 
> ...just wondering if vacuum is the strongest dielectric. I guess even that
> will fail.

        There is nothing like vaccum, you have high vaccum, very high
vaccum or ultra high ... and so on :) 

PS: I have added the OT flag, Do i need to add E to it? ;-)

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