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Re: Magnet Design for Tesla Coils



Subject: 
        Re: Magnet Design for Tesla Coils
  Date: 
        Sat, 15 Mar 1997 08:01:22 -0500 (EST)
  From: 
        SSNSanders-at-aol-dot-com
    To: 
        tesla-at-pupman-dot-com


In a message dated 97-03-15 00:43:07 EST, you write:

<< wed up due to my ignorance) was the electode geometry in the magnetic
 > field.  I built an enclosed spark gap so I could evacuate it with a
vacuum
 > pump;  the electrode geometry closely resembled the World War II
vintage
 > RADAR spark gap tubes, i.e, an cylindrical aluminum cathode that was
 > concentric to a tungsten anode (the design minimizes electrode
erosion).  
 >  >>
Were you generating a large amount of X-Rays with an evacuated tube
setup of
that sort?    Stephen Sanders