Re: Fw: frequency (fwd)

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• Subject: Re: Fw: frequency (fwd)
• From: "Trent" <trent-at-iex-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:31:47 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hello,

  Could you please give me more specifics on your spark gap design? ( motor
speed...number of electrodes...etc...)

Thanx,
               Trent

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Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: frequency (fwd)


>Original Poster: "LWRobertson" <LWRobertson-at-email.msn-dot-com>
>
>Hi ...
>
>I had a N x M rotary gap hooked up that would
>give in excess of 800 BPS one time on a DC
>circuit. After about 750 BPS the spark changed
>radically from quite an intense disruptive discharge,
>to a much shorter but more continuous and musical
>sounding sort of flame-like arc. At the time I thought
>it must be emulating a CW coil, but the rotary was
>in no way sync'd to the coil frequency. Maybe the
>arc was starting to conduct continuosly a la Jacob's
>ladder.
>
>LR
>
>
>> Marconi actually used such a system in some of his early high-power
>>transmitters working in the region of 20 kHz.  The rotary spark gap had
>>a multiplicity of small electrodes, WITH ONE SPARK PER CYCLE OF THE RF,
>>and rotated at very high speeds.
>>
>
>
> 

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