Rotary Gap Design

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• Subject: Rotary Gap Design
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• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:55:29 -0500
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From:  bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com [SMTP:bertpool-at-ticnet-dot-com]
Sent:  Friday, August 21, 1998 4:55 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Rotary Gap Design


> 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.
> -- 
> 
> 
> -GL
> www.lod-dot-org
> 
> 

No, Greg, it is possible to build a rotary gap using two counter-rotating disks 
which utilize no stationary gaps - Tesla already successfully did this.  I do not 
think Nikola ever rotated his coils during operation, but if might have made 
longer sparks, then Tesla probably did that too  ;>)

Bert Pool

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