Re: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question

2002-10-09 Thread Ted Rook
the damn frogs, did you try jump starting them with a battery :-) There has been a change in sensor construction and design because of accidents that occurred in scrap yards and garage workshops due to the precise scenario you described. First it is quite a leap of faith to treat liquid

RE: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question

2002-10-09 Thread Dan Kinney (A)
plates arranged in a coaxial manner. Dan Kinney -Original Message- From: George Tang [SMTP:gt...@lsil.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 10:17 PM To: Ken Javor; Price, Ed; 'EMC-PSTC List' Subject: RE: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question You are exactly right. I used

RE: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question

2002-10-09 Thread George Tang
Atmosphere Safety Question There was a good answer on this subject about there not being an explosive atmosphere within a car fuel tank, but I think there may be another safety factor. If I were designing the sensor system, the meter would be configured as an ohmmeter/ammeter, such that there would

Re: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question

2002-10-09 Thread Ken Javor
There was a good answer on this subject about there not being an explosive atmosphere within a car fuel tank, but I think there may be another safety factor. If I were designing the sensor system, the meter would be configured as an ohmmeter/ammeter, such that there would be a very high series

Re: Explosive Atmosphere Safety Question

2002-10-08 Thread Don_Borowski
The answer is that despite what it seems, a gasoline tank is not an explosive atmosphere. The vapor pressure of gasoline is high enough so that the atmosphere in the tank has too much gasoline vapor to burn. This takes care of possible arcing during normal operation of the fuel level sender and