Rotary Gap Design

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• Subject: Rotary Gap Design
• From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 23:02:03 -0500
• Approved: tesla-at-stic-dot-net

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From:  Tony Lekas [SMTP:tony-at-lekas-dot-org]
Sent:  Friday, August 21, 1998 8:44 AM
To:  Tesla List
Subject:  Re: Rotary Gap Design

I would not want to design slip rings that could take the voltage and current
required!

        Tony

Tesla List wrote:

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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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