Fred,
Below is a message either of mine, or one that sounds very similar. So, I am
unsure where you are going with this, in terms of other options that you are
not mentioning in this e-mail. So, how do you propose I do it to mitigate this
static issue. Don't misinterpret my "straight to the point" but I have been
under a thunderstorm autocoupled to 200' and I am a bit lacking in my usual
tact. Any help is kindly appreciated, but I did buy the tinned copper braid
today, and after reading your message I don't know what to do with it.
Reg
Tony Renshaw
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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 the
>sides of nonconductive plastic container can accumulate a static charge
>on the surface of the plastic - a capacitor. Fuel is bad enough of a
>conductor (much worse than water) to function as the dielectric of a
>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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