Re: Rotary Gap Design

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Rotary Gap Design
From: lod-at-pacbell-dot-net (by way of terryf-at-verinet-dot-com)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:35:25 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

List 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.  -- Andrew Chin
> >
> > You must have stat electrodes somewhere, unless the entire coil rotates.
> > -- GL
> 
> 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

How would you do it without at least stationary slip rings?
The slip rings would effectively operate as spark gaps, at the
current intensities and risetimes that are found in a typical
primary coil circuit.  Might as well design the stators to 
handle the sparking.
-- 

-GL
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