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Ray Cooper · 11th Feb 2007, 1:41 pm

If you're going for car ignition cable, make sure you get the kind with copper inner, and not the type sometimes sold which seems to have a sort of rubberised string inner - done for ignition interference suppression reasons.

Alternatively, if you're prepared to sleeve it for aesthetic reasons, how about using the inner plus dielectric of a length of, say, UR43 co-ax cable with the outer and braided screen removed? At the sort of voltages you're talking about, this should work fine.

11th Feb 2007, 1:41 pm	#12
Ray Cooper Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Porthmadog, Gwynedd, UK. Posts: 199	Re: EHT problem If you're going for car ignition cable, make sure you get the kind with copper inner, and not the type sometimes sold which seems to have a sort of rubberised string inner - done for ignition interference suppression reasons. Alternatively, if you're prepared to sleeve it for aesthetic reasons, how about using the inner plus dielectric of a length of, say, UR43 co-ax cable with the outer and braided screen removed? At the sort of voltages you're talking about, this should work fine.