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Re: Spinning pipes
Alfred,
Tesla List wrote:
> Original Poster: alfred.skrocki.sr-at-juno-dot-com (Alfred A Skrocki)
>
> On Sun, 15 Nov 1998 21:59:42 -0700 Barton B. Anderson
> <mopar-at-uswest-dot-net> wrote:
>
> >...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.
>
> Even though you seem to be getting some pretty good results with this
> new rotating spark gap design, I think you may get better results still
> by replacing the fixed electrodes with 6" x 1/2 copper pipe instead of
> the
> 5/8" spheres. Then you would have a true hybrid of the classical rotating
> spark gap and the Richard Quick/TCBOR static design.
I thought about this originally, but at the time couldn't figure out a good
way to mount the piping solidly to the fixed electrodes. However, after
figuring out the mounting for the spheres, adding the piping will not be a
problem. I would not use 6" length on the fixed pipe as I want to arc across
a single pipe which means the fixed pipe length would be around 2" length.
I'll give it a try.
Bart