Mike writes: >You absolutely do not use a capacitance across the tube. What you have built >is a gas-discharge relaxation oscillator equivalent to any common strobe >flash. It is ***not*** a PAGD reactor.
I agree with Mike in this. Electrode capacity and geometry are important parameters for this effect; add additional capacity and you change discharge regimes from AGD to simple arc discharge. BTW, a substantial amount of industrial research has gone into AGD, do a literature and patent search and you will see. The main industrial use is for things like nitriding metal surfaces. A question for Mike: does Paulo have a current collection of refs on his website relevant to this work? K.
