Sandia's Preemptive Spark Helps Find Electrical Short Circuits

Credit: SANDIA NATIONAL LABRATORIES
Sandia National Laboratories has patented a preemptive spark lasting for nanoseconds that helps find potentially dangerous short circuits in the miles of wiring behind the panels of aging commercial airliners. The Pulsed Arrested Spark Discharge (PASD) is expected to be marketed this fall by Redmond...

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