Conductivity of Fire Streams
An interesting experiment on the conductivity of fire streams was performed by R. K. Dingledine and W. D. Rogers, of the Tennessee Inspection Bureau, and R. W. Britchard, of the Tennessee Electric Power Company, at Winchester, Tenn.
A small 1152,300 volt transformer was used. The low voltage winding was connected to a 115volt circuit. One of the high tension terminals was grounded and the other was connected to a bare wire supported on insulators making the potential of the bare wire 2,300 volts to the ground. A stream from a 3/4-inch nozzle with forty pounds pressure was directed on the charged wire from a distance of 4.5 feet. The potential between the nozzle and ground was measured by means of a voltmeter and found to he fifty volts.
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