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Re: A "Revolutionary" Idea

Subject: 
        Re: A "Revolutionary" Idea
  Date: 
        Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:05:32 -0700
  From: 
        "DR.RESONANCE" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
    To: 
        "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


to: Joe Cummings

Yes -- we did the experiment you mentioned.  We used 10 electrodes and
had
a gap above and below each electrode.  Connected them all in series for
a
total of 20 series gaps on a 12 inch rotary disk running on a variable
speed DC drive motor.

It worked very poorly on both small and large coils.  It was
over-quenching
and reduced the output considerably as compared to a normal 4 gap
rotary.

It did work very well on a tightly coupled (0.6) magnifier type coil
system
such as the type R. Hull is running.  

We concluded is wasn't a great idea unless you are running a very
tightly
coupled system in a true resonance transformer mode operation.

DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net


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> From: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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> Subject: A "Revolutionary" Idea
> Date: Friday,March 21,1997 11:21 PM
> 
> Subject: 
>         A "Revolutionary" Idea
>   Date: 
>         Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:27:05 GMT
>   From: 
>         Joe Cummings <joecmn-at-globalnet.co.uk>
>     To: 
>         tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> 
> 
> At present I'm not able to do any practical work, so all I do is carry
> out
> Gedankenforschungen - thought experiments.
> 
> I have an idea about rotary spark gaps that, knowing the amount of
> expertise
> to be found on this list, I'm sure has been dealt with before. Anyway,
> I'll
> float it.
> 
> I assume a rotary S.G. has an electrode on the rotor, which, as it
> rotates
> comes opposite one or more electrodes on the stator, so to get more
> frequent
> sparks, the rotor has to be accelerated.
> 
> Now, has anyone tried staggering a number of electrodes on the rotor, so
> that there
> 
>  is more than one spark per rev, or x sparks per rev, depending on the
> number of electrodes on the stator?
> 
> Let's build a rotary with six static electrodes, and five on the rotor.
> Let
> us space the electrodes on the rotor using a compass, set, not at the
> radius, but at the length of the radius plus one fifth the length of the
> radius. Let's call the stator elctrodes S1,S2,etc., and the rotary
> electrodes R1,R2,etc.
> 
> Now starting with R1 and S1 sparking opposite each other, after a fifth
> times a sixth of a revolution, R2 and S2 are sparking, and after another
> thirtieth of a rev., R3 and S3 are sparking and so on. This will mean
> that
> there are thirty sparks per revolution.
> 
> Is this a feasible proposition? If so, then it could be worked out for
> any
> number of
> electrodes.