Equipping a HV lab (fwd)

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Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>



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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:57:43 -0800
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Equipping a HV lab

So here's an interesting one..

If you had to equip a HV development lab (for designing, building HV 
power supplies, connectors, etc.) up to around 50kV, what sort of 
test equipment and supplies would be useful.  There's obvious things 
like HV scope probes, compensated voltage dividers, current probes, 
Rogowski coils, adjustable power supplies, etc.

isolation transformers so you can float test gear

What about stuff that's handy for assembling stuff.. toroids of 
various sizes, corona balls, and the like?
What about cabling?  tooling to assemble cables with HV wire?

We're not talking about lots of stored energy in any of the systems 
(so we don't need the 100 kJ/second charging supplies or the big 
energy dump resistors)


But what about weird or unexpected stuff.  Something that when you 
see it you go, gosh, that would be really, really handy.

Price is no object.


Thanks,

Jim Lux