Thanks Fred, oh great Guru, :-))
Your right, but I wanted everything I could get to drain off any
charge.
Jim Nelson
N15JN
<fillinger@ameritech.net> writes:
> <fillinger@ameritech.net>
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> > I plan also on putting a metal braid down the filler opening into
> the
> > tank and connecting to Graham's aluminum tank outlet fitting. I
> plan on
> > Alum pipe runs which will ultimately be grounded to the engine
> ground.
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> I don't think that will do anything. The sloshing of fuel against
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> sides of nonconductive plastic container can accumulate a static
> charge
> on the surface of the plastic - a capacitor. Fuel is bad enough of
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> conductor (much worse than water) to function as the dielectric of a
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> capacitor. But enough of a dielectric relative to fuel-air vapor so
> that
> a capacitance fuel probe works. If fuel were enough of a conductor
> to
> prevent static buildup during refueling, then the probe wouldn't be
> just
> a leaky capacitor, but a shorted one, and it wouldn't work at all!
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> Regards,
> Fred F.
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