Processes responsible for electrical breakdown initiation in commercial indicator gas tube

Abstract

The results of the commercial indictor gas tube investigation, by the time delay measuring method are presented in this paper. This tube is usually used as a indicator of many electrical appliances. The experimentally obtained time delay distributions for different voltages (80 V, 90 V and 100 V) and different relaxation times (from 1 ms to 20 ms) are presented. It is shown that time delay distributions have Gaussian shape, and that used gas discharge tube has very small memory effect. Small memory effect indicates fast response, and consequently good characteristic for indicator tube.