Magnetic Quenching of Spark Gaps

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• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:40:28 -0500
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From: 	Greg Leyh[SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent: 	Monday, September 22, 1997 5:47 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Magnetic Quenching of Spark Gaps

David Huffman wrote:


> > Perhaps a set of smaller auxillary contacts could be mounted on the main rotor
> > of the gap, which are positioned to fire _just after_ the main contacts open.
> > The auxillary contacts would discharge the energy stored in a small capacitor
> > into an electromagnetic coil set, mounted above and below the main gap area.
> > -GL
>
> Excellent idea. I just posted some questions concerning clearing those
> slow motion ions, but never gave a thought to moving the magnetic
> field. A capacitor discharge into a coil could make a very large
> magnetic field. Maybe use two timed to cause the field to move across
> the gap.

I realized afterwards that if the axis of the pulsed solenoid was
parallel to, but offset from, the axis of the gap electrodes, then 
the field would move across the gap as you suggest.  This would 
produce good motor action (F = qvB) in a very short and prescribed period.


-GL

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