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Re: Equipping a HV lab (fwd)
Original poster: Steven Roys <sroys@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:14:32 -0600
From: Bert Hickman <bert.hickman@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: High Voltage list <hvlist@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Equipping a HV lab (fwd)
High Voltage list wrote:
> 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
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
>
> Jim Lux
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>
Hi Jim,
Sounds like a fun project if price is no object... :^)
One interesting toy would be a corona camera:
http://www.specialcamera.com/uvcam/cameras.html
http://www.corona-technology-course.com/
Bert
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