Rotary Gap Design

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• Subject: Rotary Gap Design
• From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:05:19 -0500
• Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

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From:  lod-at-pacbell-dot-net [SMTP:lod-at-pacbell-dot-net]
Sent:  Thursday, August 20, 1998 1:16 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Rotary Gap Design

Andrew Chin wrote:

> Just wondering whether anyone has designed a rotary gap with two rotors
> instead of one rotor with stationary electrodes.  What I'm trying to picture
> here is two rotors with X electrodes. The rotors are mounted like they were
> gears, but instead the rotors spin in the same direction.  The relative
> velocity of the electrodes is then doubled so quenching would
> presumably be higher.  Overheating of the stationary electrode would then
> be redundant.

You must have stat electrodes somewhere, unless the entire coil rotates.
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-GL
www.lod-dot-org

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