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Re: Spinning pipes

Ed,
Definitely. I planned on getting some pictures and posting, but I am one
of those without a digital camera (hope Santa heard me). I'm probably
going to have to do it the old fashion way of developing and scanning.
Although, I do have a friend at work with a digital. hmmm...
Bart

Tesla List wrote:

> Original Poster: Esondrmn-at-aol-dot-com
>
> In a message dated 11/15/98 11:58:25 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
>
> <<
>  Hi All,
>  Just finished a new RSG. I switched from an 1800 rpm
>  sync (120 breaks) to a direct drive variable DC. I was
>  thinking about trying something different than the basic
>  singular disk with electrode points. I designed and
>  built a squirl-cage RSG using ~6" x 1/2" copper pipe.
>  There are two disks with 8 pipes. Since the rotational
>  force would be great at high rpm, I built this with as
>  tight a tolerance as possible. The fixed electrodes are
>  5/8" spheres connected to a 5" x 1/2" bolt. Needless to
>  say, I've built the RSG within a 1.5" thick wooden case
>  just in case. It spins nice without vibration, so far.
>
>  I tried it out tonight. As I was building it, I kept
>  thinking this thing is never going to quench like I need
>  it to. But to my surprise, it did quite well. The arcs
>  were white hot and right into the ceiling of my garage
>  at ~2kva. I tried getting the coil as low as possible
>  from the top of the garage ceiling which is 4 feet, but
>  the arcs just went right up as white and hot as ever
>  into the ceiling. Unlike my old RSG, this one is
>  producing 1 to 2 arcs per burst where the old one was
>  producing many streamers.
>
>  Unfortunately, my garage is too small to run it at full
>  power to see what effects the variable drive and RSG is
>  capable of. It hasn't snowed yet in my area of
>  Minnesota, so maybe I'll get a chance this week to run
>  it outside. I did note that this particular RSG produces
>  a lot of moving air. The fixed electrodes were still
>  cold after a few short runs.
>
>  I'm sure I'm not the first to build such a gap. Probably
>  the old timers have either built this type at some point
>  in the past or know of others who have. I wonder how
>  some of those performed?
>
>  Bart
>   >>
> Bart,
>
> Sounds real interesting.  How about posting some pictures of this gap?
>
> Ed Sonderman