Simple Fully Adjustable RQ Gap

• To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
• Subject: Simple Fully Adjustable RQ Gap
• From: "Payne, Will E" <will.e.payne-at-lmco-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 17:12:48 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Howdy again !  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the RQ gap is a multi-gap made
of parallel segments of copper pipe.

Last night I glued 13 RQ electrodes on a strip of 1/8 in thick
glass-composite salvaged from a yard transformer. I spaced the gaps at
0.008, and by bending the strip, I can get the gaps up to about 0.050 and
still have them fairly uniform.  I had several beers in me by the time the
glue was applied, plus irregular edges on my shims from the tin snips kinda
skewed my spacing a bit.  Tonight I will clean it up and try to get it into
some kind of circuit.

If anyones interested, will follow with quantitative data on uniformity and
performance at power, but I do not yet have a complete TC system to test in.
But I pass the simple method of simultaneously adjusting all the gaps in
case it helps anyone.

Will

• Prev: Re: win tesla vs. JHCTES
• Next: RE: "Oven elements arent cheap"
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread